On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 05:21:19PM -0500, David Halik wrote:
Hi,
I've been attempting to setup perdition to use multiple servers for the
same user names, but it doesn't seem possible which is a shame. In my
googling attempts I ran into this email:
http://lists.vergenet.net/pipermail/perdition-users/2009-November/002214.ht…
That's exactly what I would like to do.
Currently, perdition has no way of handling a server being down. If
user1: serverA, and serverA is down, user1 is out of luck.
I shouldn't think it would be hard to have user1:
serverA,serverB,serverC and just have perdition go to the next server
when the first times out.
It would require some reworking of the code, but no, it shouldn't be too hard.
Also, if this was in place you would probably want an option to say
"dont_return_to_master." The point of this being, if serverA goes down
and connections go to B, when A comes back up you don't want connections
going back there automatically or you will have user1 on both A and B.
Some IMAP servers have a major issue with conflicting sessions.
What if you have two perdition servers?
Should information about which user is currently using which server be
shared? And for that matter persistent? At this point things
seem to be getting a bit more complex :-)
Anyway just some ideas.
But just to verify, perdition can't do backup IMAP servers, correct?
At this stage that is correct.