dovecot - Apr 2007 - Any plans for storing messages on a database?

Redudancy and recovering from a mailstore failure is one of the concerns I 
am trying to address where I work.

Any plans to have Dovecot store emails in a database?

NAS/SAN devices which do automatic replication to a second device are 
extremely expensive.

I also don't see any distributed filesystem which is mature and available 
for the OS we use (FreeBSD).

I recall at one point, many months back, Timo mentioned that perhaps storing 
the messages in the database was a possibility for the future.
Any additional thoughts on this?

Francisco Reyes spake the following on 4/28/2007 9:42
AM:
> Redudancy and recovering from a mailstore failure is one of the concerns
> I am trying to address where I work.
> 
> Any plans to have Dovecot store emails in a database?
> 
> NAS/SAN devices which do automatic replication to a second device are
> extremely expensive.
> 
> I also don't see any distributed filesystem which is mature and
> available for the OS we use (FreeBSD).
> 
> I recall at one point, many months back, Timo mentioned that perhaps
> storing the messages in the database was a possibility for the future.
> Any additional thoughts on this? 
If you want to experiment with a inexpensive NAS with replication, look at
Freenas. It can do nfs sharing and automatic replication with rsync.
And it is free and based on Freebsd. Still immature, but it has a lot of
promise.

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> Redudancy and recovering from a mailstore failure is one of the concerns I 
> am trying to address where I work.
> 
> Any plans to have Dovecot store emails in a database?
> 
> NAS/SAN devices which do automatic replication to a second device are 
> extremely expensive.
 
Worth checking out is openfiler: http://www.openfiler.com/
> I also don't see any distributed filesystem which is mature and
available
> for the OS we use (FreeBSD).
A well designed NAS/SAN will work well regardless of the client OS.

-- 
Kenny Dail <kend at amigo.net>

On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 12:42:48PM -0400, Francisco Reyes
wrote:
> Redudancy and recovering from a mailstore failure is one of the concerns I 
> am trying to address where I work.
> 
> Any plans to have Dovecot store emails in a database?
> 
> NAS/SAN devices which do automatic replication to a second device are 
> extremely expensive.
> 
> I also don't see any distributed filesystem which is mature and
available
> for the OS we use (FreeBSD).
You should at least check on OpenAFS..

http://www.openafs.org/pipermail/port-freebsd/2007-February/000199.html

The freebsd port looks like it might be a bit hairy yet though.

Scott Silva writes:
> If you want to experiment with a inexpensive NAS with replication, look at
> Freenas. It can do nfs sharing and automatic replication with rsync.
> And it is free and based on Freebsd. Still immature, but it has a lot of
promise.
Our experience with FreeBSD+NFS has been less than stellar.
We had a lot of issues when we tried to use NFS as a mailstore repository in 
FreeBSD.

Troy Benjegerdes writes:
> http://www.openafs.org/pipermail/port-freebsd/2007-February/000199.html
> The freebsd port looks like it might be a bit hairy yet though.
AFS and CODA are on my list to check.
Another user in this list mentioned Gluster.
I must say gluster looks very interesting.