El abr 20, 2015 3:55 AM, "Bron Gondwana" <brong@xxxxxxxxxxx> escribió:
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> (taking it back to the list in case it's useful to others)
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> On Mon, Apr 20, 2015, at 05:45 PM, Lalot Dominique wrote:
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>> Hello Bron
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>> Unfortunately I would'nt be able to go to The Hague..
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> Oh well :)
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>> Just as a simple question, the only drawback of not using is that you won't be able to share folders?
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> That's the only drawback we have. You can only share folders with users on the same server. For our family/business accounts, we just make sure all users are on the same backend.
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> We run hundreds of servers, and use nginx as a proxy in front of them so we can move users without them knowing or having to update settings.
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>> Can we have several imap servers without using muder?
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> Sure. We do a thing we call slots and stores, where we split each machines up into up to 40 separate instances of Cyrus with 1Tb of storage each, replicating to different machines.
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>> I had only used a simple setup, one imap server with several spools
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> That works fine, but it wont' give you high availability.
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>> Is there some more information somewhere?
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> Not much unfortunately. We've written about our setup many times, most recently here:
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> http://blog.fastmail.com/2014/12/04/standalone-mail-servers/
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> and more detail here:
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> https://www.fastmail.com/help/technical/architecture.html
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> But they don't give you quite enough configuration detail to just plug and play.
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> Our plan with the Cyrus Foundation and developing Cyrus 3.0 is to have pre-configured Docker images which you can just run and add storage, and they will work in a cluster. It's very ambitious, and we might not have it fully stable by July when we launch 3.0, but it's definitely the eventual goal.
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> What is your timeframe for setting up this new system?
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> Regards,
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> Bron.
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> Bron Gondwana
> brong@xxxxxxxxxxx
Interesting, is the use of several instances needed because cyrus cannot scale with threads in a single instance scenario?
Regards,
Ciro
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