RE: postfix clustering

2010-11-02 Thread Peter
> > Interesting.  This is a _huge_ leap in capability > for any IMAP server > > I'm aware of.  Yet, entering either "replication" > or "cluster" in the > > Cyrus home page search box returns zero results.  > When will these > > features be released as production ready?  Right > now it appears they

Re: postfix clustering

2010-11-02 Thread Peter
- > > Hi Stan, > > > >> 1.  What are your specific failure concerns > with your > >> primary site? > >> Network failure?  Host failure?  Storage > hardware > >> failure? > > > > You have a great suggestion assuming the data center > functions well. > > > > the data center primary site failure

RE: postfix clustering

2010-11-02 Thread Mark Scholten
> -Original Message- > From: owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org [mailto:owner-postfix- > us...@postfix.org] On Behalf Of Stan Hoeppner > Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 6:14 AM > To: postfix-users@postfix.org > Subject: Re: postfix clustering > > Reinaldo de Carvalho

Re: postfix clustering

2010-11-01 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Peter put forth on 11/1/2010 6:51 PM: > Hi Stan, > >> 1. What are your specific failure concerns with your >> primary site? >> Network failure? Host failure? Storage hardware >> failure? > > You have a great suggestion assuming the data center functions well. > > the data center primary site

Re: postfix clustering

2010-11-01 Thread Peter
Hi Stan, > 1.  What are your specific failure concerns with your > primary site? > Network failure?  Host failure?  Storage hardware > failure? You have a great suggestion assuming the data center functions well. the data center primary site failure means that the data center itself failed, mean

Re: postfix clustering

2010-10-31 Thread Reinaldo de Carvalho
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 2:13 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Reinaldo de Carvalho put forth on 10/30/2010 3:39 PM: > > > From Cyrus mailling list: > > > > "Now that Cyrus 2.4 has been released with a lot of the groundwork for > > bandwidth efficient replication in place, Max is going to be working > >

Re: postfix clustering

2010-10-30 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Peter put forth on 10/29/2010 1:55 PM: > I agree with your point. > the above solution should work well if the active/active server > are located in the same location. Correct. > for the machines in different data center, there is no guarantee of speed. Correct. > also, making the server run i

Re: postfix clustering

2010-10-30 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Reinaldo de Carvalho put forth on 10/30/2010 3:39 PM: > From Cyrus mailling list: > > "Now that Cyrus 2.4 has been released with a lot of the groundwork for > bandwidth efficient replication in place, Max is going to be working > on improving the management tools and monitoring of the replication

Re: postfix clustering

2010-10-30 Thread Reinaldo de Carvalho
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Wietse Venema wrote: > Peter: > > guess it is something beyond postfix to handle. not sure how postfix > > users will handle such an issue? > > You are looking for a two-way replicated message store. Postfix is > an MTA. Postfix is not a storage manager. > > >Fro

Re: postfix clustering

2010-10-30 Thread Wietse Venema
Peter: > guess it is something beyond postfix to handle. not sure how postfix > users will handle such an issue? You are looking for a two-way replicated message store. Postfix is an MTA. Postfix is not a storage manager. Two-way storage replication is a commodity solution if the systems are conn

Re: postfix clustering

2010-10-29 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Peter put forth on 10/29/2010 1:55 PM: > guess it is something beyond postfix to handle. not sure how postfix users > will handle such an issue? Attempting to architect your remote site cluster or failover solution via back-n-forth to the Postfix mail list is not the proper way to go about this.

Re: postfix clustering

2010-10-29 Thread Peter
Hi Stan, > > I think Victor meant "not" a Postfix issue.  If you > want to build a mail > store cluster over a WAN link, start your reading here: > > http://www.drbd.org > http://sourceware.org/cluster/gfs/ > > The combination of these will allow you to accomplish your > cluster goal. > Dep

Re: postfix clustering

2010-10-28 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Victor Duchovni put forth on 10/28/2010 2:00 PM: > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:41:17AM -0700, Peter wrote: > >> I want to use postfix for active/active mode. > > No, you want to cluster your mailstore (IMAP, POP, ...). This is not > Postfix. Multiple Postfix MX hosts do not need to be clustered, t

Re: postfix clustering

2010-10-28 Thread Peter
Hi Victor, thanks for your response. > > I want to use postfix for active/active mode. > > No, you want to cluster your mailstore (IMAP, POP, ...). > This is not > Postfix. Multiple Postfix MX hosts do not need to be > clustered, the > SMTP design automatically load-balances multiple MX hosts.

Re: postfix clustering

2010-10-28 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:41:17AM -0700, Peter wrote: > I want to use postfix for active/active mode. No, you want to cluster your mailstore (IMAP, POP, ...). This is not Postfix. Multiple Postfix MX hosts do not need to be clustered, the SMTP design automatically load-balances multiple MX hosts

postfix clustering

2010-10-28 Thread Peter
Hello, I want to use postfix for active/active mode. Here is my dns settings: mycompany.com MX 10 first.mycompany.com mycompany.com MX 10 second.mycompany.com "first" and "second" machine are located in the different physical location I have two issues here: 1) where should I point my pop se