[horde] New Webmail installation / migration / different servers for db, mail, horde

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----- Original Message -----
From: Götz Reinicke <goetz.reinicke at filmakademie.de>
To: "horde at lists.horde.org" <horde at lists.horde.org>
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Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 12:15 PM
Subject: Re: [horde] New Webmail installation / migration / different servers for db, mail, horde

Am 27.10.11 11:28, schrieb Jan Schneider:
>
> Zitat von Götz Reinicke <goetz.reinicke at filmakademie.de>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> currently I do run horde webmail groupware 1.2.9 on our main mail server
>> (smtp & imap). (with db- and webserver installed)
>>
>> Now planing the upgrade to the most recent horde 4.x I was thinking
>> again about putting the db on a newer db-server and horde on a newer
>> webserver so I have three servers for the seperate services.
>>
>> Beeing faced in my test setup (everything on the main mailserver) with
>> an 'HORDE4 [imp] Server does not support TLS connections [1]' problem I
>> was first thinking of disabling the tls imap config. But now, thinking
>> of putting everything on seperate servers I'm not sure, if that is an
>> good idea. (the servers are all in the same dmz)
>>
>> Anyway, dose anyone has suggestions or in which way whould my
>> setup/configuration steps be different from the 'normal one box' setup?
>>
>> Thats what I know so far:
>>
>> - install horde on the new webserver. (old php 5.2.x new php 5.3.x)
>> - database connection is configured at installation time of horde or
>> admin->setup->database
>> - smtp is configured at admin->setup->mailer
>>

Hi.

I'd split the systems apart because it will increase security, performance, hardware- & service reliability.

IMP does support imap TLS afaik. I use the dovecot version which comes whit RHEL6, and it supports TLS.

But before implementing, remember to test, test and test again :)


Regards,
/PGE