On Oct 24, 2007, at 1:38 PM, Craig White wrote: > On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 21:21 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: >>> I thought the usual ways of doing this were to either use a >>> high-performance NFS server (netapp filer...) and maildir format >>> so you >>> can run imap from any client facing server, or to keep the >>> delivery host >>> information in an LDAP attribute that you find when validating >>> the address. >>> >> >> This is the 'I have the money' way of doing this ;-) > ---- > last I checked, openldap, postfix and cyrus-imapd were free. What > is the > money reference? > > cyrus-imapd doesn't use maildir but rather it's own methodology > which is > similar to maildir but keeps all the mail in it's own partition > instead > of users folders. It doesn't use system for quota management but has > quota management built in. It seems much more sane and permits > 'virtual > users' which is/can be a virtue of ldap based accounts. I'm guessing that "money" referred to the netapp filer Tony S