[Dovecot] Hints for a NFS-Setup

[Patrick Westenberg]

Patrick Westenberg schrieb:
> Nick Warr schrieb:
>
>> I think some of the new Dovecot (director?) software is user aware, but
>> I don't know if it's quite ready for production.
>
> Yes, with director it should be something like that:
>
> MTA --(lmtp)--\ /--(lmtp)--> backend1 --\
> -- director -- -- NFS
> MTA --(lmtp)--/ \--(lmtp)--> backend2 --/
>
>
> IMAP-User --> frontend1 --\ /--(imap)--> backend1 --\
> -- director -- -- NFS
> IMAP-User --> frontend2 --/ \--(imap)--> backend2 --/
>
>
> So what happens if user1 at example.tld receives a mail?
>
> - The director decides to connect to backend1 which in turn stores
> the mail on the NFS share and the index file locally?
>
> - Then, user1 at example.tld connects to one of the frontends. Does the
> director know that, earlier, this user received a mail and proxies him
> to backend1 too?

Timo?
This post is from March, right before you introduced the stones :D