On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 09:58 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: > > 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 ;-) > >>> > >>> There are at least 2 free ldap servers. Or if you are stuck with > >>> mysql you can probably add your own field for delivery host. > >> > >> The service provider I used to work for tried openldap in 98. They got > >> burned big time. Maybe it is up to the task today. What kind of > >> hardware, though, would you use for one that the OP indicates will get > >> a lot of writes? Everything I have read says LDAP is not for high > >> write problems. > > > > 1998 was a long time ago. Red Hat (fedora) directory server has claimed > > good performce for several years now. > > http://directory.fedoraproject.org/ > > Yeah, well, I guess the Fedora Directory server is unlikely to drop its > entire datastore and will actually keep running but hey, are you going > to migrate back to ldap if you have a system that is distributed across > different mysql boxes running on cheap boxes and does its job? ---- what I can't figure out is why you are asking questions when you have already decided answers...in part based on experiences from 10 years ago. Craig