[CentOS] clustered mail server?

Sun May 18 20:21:07 UTC 2008
Ruslan Sivak <russ at vshift.com>

David G. Mackay wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-05-17 at 10:30 +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
>   
>> Thank you for your input. I can't justify exchange (and don't want MS) 
>> for 10 users. I do want IMAP though, and the calendar & address book 
>> would be nice. This IMO has nothing todo with CentOS though, but at the 
>> same time it shouldn't be limited to which Linux distro I'm using. As 
>> you have said I may need to look at file system clustering instead, but 
>> have never attempted it, so I don't know where to begin even. I know a 
>> lot of MTA's can support a central user DB, but that won't sync the 
>> emails. And this won't be a commercial installation either, it's for a 
>> for a project in a rural community about 700km's from me, so it's more a 
>> matter of if 1 server dies / crashes / packes up, and I can only get to 
>> it 5 days later, the mail server still works :)
>>     
>
> You might take a look at SquirrelMail.  It integrates well with cyrus
> imap.
>
> Dave
>
>
>   
I'm not sure why nobody has asked this yet, but why not try hosted GMail 
instead?  It's free and you can use it with your domain name.  We 
currently run a linux based mail server, but are thinking of migrating 
over to hosted GMail, and have one so for a few clients already with no 
problems.

Russ