On 19 Mar 2001 20:44:19 +0100, Prune wrote:
> Michael Lausch wrote:
> >
> >
> > I plan to do some IMAP proxy hacking on perdition so that i can distribute the
> > mailbox across many servers. The currently implemented method in cyrus 2.x does
> > not satisfy me entirely, since i'd like to use LDAP as the storage method,
> > since we currently have LDAP with replication servers and load balancers in
> > production use and it's working perfectly.
>
> Which Ldap ?
> do you plane to write every mail in your ldap, as if it was a database
> ??
Sorry, i was a little bit unclear. I want to use LDAP as storage
for metadata, as was stored in the mailboxes file in 1.[56].x versions.
This would also reduce the number of partitions to be shared across
machines if some cluster software is used for e hight availability
solution.
>
> I'm currious of how Ldap can deal the load of 200.000 mailbox !
> normaly it's not optimized for writing. What do you think of this ?
>
> Maybe someone already tried this ?
>
> Prune
