[Dovecot] Questions about Proxy/Director (was: Re: Indexes to MLC-SSD)

[Jan-Frode Myklebust]

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 02:38:43PM +0100, Patrick Westenberg wrote:
> Jan-Frode Myklebust schrieb:
> 
> >MTA -(lmtp)-->  dovecot-director ---(lmtp)--->  backend-server1
> >                                \---(lmtp)--->  backend-server2
> >
> >
> >IMAP-user  -(imap)-->  dovecot-director --(imap) -->  backend-server1
> >                                       \--(imap) -->  backend-server2
> 
> In this scenario it should be possible to use a non cluster filesystem
> to store my mails, isn't it?

Yes, that should work fine -- assuming you have acceptable uptime on the
backend server that is hosting the messages. You also need to configure
a user<->backend-server mapping trough proxy extrafield to make sure
that the user lands on the correct server:

	http://wiki2.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields/Proxy


  -jf