[Dovecot] nfs director

2010-08-26 Thread Edward avanti
Halo, Please can you explain why this is advantage over a hardware load balancer. I fail to see advantage if anything it add in more point of failure, with several hundred thousand user, we can ill afford to mess around or add to complexity, sometime keeping it simple is simply way to be, when use

Re: [Dovecot] nfs director

2010-08-26 Thread Edward avanti
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 26.8.2010, at 23.54, Edward avanti wrote: > > > Please can you explain why this is advantage over a hardware load > balancer. > > It guarantees that the same user is accessed via the same server. Hardware > L

Re: [Dovecot] nfs director

2010-08-27 Thread Edward avanti
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Noel Butler wrote: > On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 08:54 +1000, Edward avanti wrote: > > > Halo, > > Please can you explain why this is advantage over a hardware load > balancer. > > > it is no advantage over a dedicated hardware solution,

Re: [Dovecot] nfs director

2010-08-27 Thread Edward avanti
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Brandon Davidson wrote: > Noel, > > On 8/26/10 9:59 PM, "Noel Butler" wrote: > > >> I fail to see advantage if anything it add in more point of failure, > with > > > > i agree with this and it is why we dont use it > > > > we use dovecots deliver with postfix and

Re: [Dovecot] nfs director

2010-09-01 Thread Edward avanti
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Noel Butler wrote: > On Sat, 2010-08-28 at 09:18 +0200, Cor Bosman wrote: > > > > > > imap access is not common in this country, it is in fact extremely rare, > common only for webmail servers. > > Much of Asia also no use imap as primary mail for customer > > Al

Re: [Dovecot] nfs director

2010-09-02 Thread Edward avanti
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Seth Mattinen wrote: > On 8/31/2010 10:22, Ariel Biener wrote: > > > > Oh, and Timo, I don't think we are just "a couple of NFS users". Maildir > > and NFS are not as uncommon as > > you'd think, even in very large installations. > > > > > NFS with maildir has bee

Re: [Dovecot] nfs director

2010-09-02 Thread Edward avanti
why you reply with 7 page of rubbish? yes we all see you fan of director, many not. why go on tangent about it, it already said it not for us, director not able to help on 24 inbound mail server, else might well turn it all off now, you clear yet? on any other list you be label troll director is no

Re: [Dovecot] nfs director

2010-09-02 Thread Edward avanti
have you been told where you might go lately and do with some part your anatomy? this Timo list, not you list, best remember this since you nobody this list On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 8:19 AM, Jerry wrote: > On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 07:22:00 +1000 > Edward avanti articulated: > > > why y

Re: [Dovecot] nfs director

2010-09-09 Thread Edward avanti
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 3.9.2010, at 7.00, Noel Butler wrote: > > > I do take exception to be told this issue can be fixed, but NFS users > > are not worth it, which is essentially what he told us, I dare say if > > this list was flooded by dovecot NFS users aski