If you need scalability (and redundancy) I suggest you to check out the
DBMail project.
www.dbmail.org
It stores the whole information about users and the mail itself in the
database (MySQL and PGSQL), and scalability and redundancy of these
RDBMSs should be limited only by your imagination ;-)
Xirtam wrote:
> I'm a new fan of exim and I handle a setup with a few mail servers
> running Exim 4.52.
>
> But: If one machine failed, all users sending mails to that box would
> get a connection failed error. Therefore I want to build a mail
> cluster (LVS) where all boxes have shared maildirs and a shared queue.
> My question: Are there technical problems when more than one Exim
> instance is using the same spool directory? Are there workarounds or
> *if* there are problems could they be solved without losing the idea
> of a redundant mail system with a central storage unit?
>
> I got a redundant storage server which should scale well. It already
> handles the maildirs of the different users.
>
> If this was already answered to the current versions of Exim, please
> give me the link or just tell me that it has been posted if it's too
> annoying :).
> I searched the list but I didn't find a clear answer to my problem.
>
> Regards,
>
> Moritz Augustin
> (Hamburg/Germany)
>
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Best regards,
Danil V. Gerun.
