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Re: Distributing crypto work away from apache-ssl?





--On Tuesday, February 22, 2005 01:39 +0100 Marcin Owsiany <marcin@owsiany.pl> wrote:

On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 03:09:35PM -0700, Michael Loftis wrote:
...why do you need to run apache-ssl on the mail server, or on a single
server at all?

It's a heavily modified sqwebmail, whose CGI binary needs direct access
to the filesystem on which user directories (Maildirs are just a part of
what it uses) lie. Well, actually stock sqwebmail is said to work over
NFS, but:
 - I want to avoid NFS as long as possible, having heard the horror
   stories
 - I'm not sure that our modifications are NFS-safe

Wow, ick :)

given your webmail application may require shared storage
(squirrelmail does) but you can easily setup a cluster of apache's.

I don't understand this sentence. Could you rephrase it more clearly?

Long term you'll have to anyway.

Long term (which seems will be quite shortly) I will have to split the
mail storage to several machines, which is going to be even more tricky
:-/

IMAP based webmail apps are generally better at scaling and more reliable in the multi-access case, they also don't require NFS -- This holds especially true with good modern mail backend systems like Cyrus that have a sort of clustering mechanism built in (MURDER is what it's called with Cyrus) for scaling them up.



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