Mail & Safari ignoring default keychain setting on 10.9 Mavericks

Regardless of which keychain is set as default Apple Mail and Safari seem to always store saved passwords in the "local items" keychain instead of the one selected as default. Even worse, Mail is not even able to use account passwords stored in another keychain.
What's the point in having a default keychain setting if it is ignored by two major applications using keychains? Does anyone know why there are some applications respecting the default setting and some that are not?

SSD drives have no moving parts so are generally much more reliable than ordinary hard disks so the need for RAID1 is less. However Mail is nowadays regarded as a business critical service so you still want to minimise downtime.
Unfortunately Apple don't make it practical to implement a server cluster using their software which would be the best approach. Other than using a different product like Microsoft Exchange which can be used in a cluster but would cost enormously more, I would use an external hardware RAID solution, perhaps the Promise Pegasus R4.
See http://www.promise.com/storage/raid_series.aspx?m=192&region=en-global&rsn1=40&r sn3=47
I did also find recently the following which is a FireWire external RAID enclosure for 2.5" drives but also includes hardware RAID1 support. You could use two 1TB 2.5" drives in it. It can be powered via FireWire so does not even have a power supply to possibly fail.
See http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/EliteALmini/RAID/eSATA_FW800_FW400_USB
As Simon mentioned you could also use a hosted mail solution, there is even the option of Office365 with the add-on of MS Exchange.

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