[Dovecot] Providing shared folders with multiple backend servers

[Sven Hartge]

Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> On 8.1.2012, at 0.20, Sven Hartge wrote:

>> Right now, I am pondering with using an additional server with just
>> the shared folders on it and using NFS (or a cluster FS) to mount the
>> shared folder filesystem to each backend storage server, so each user
>> has potential access to a shared folders data.

> With NFS you'll run into problems with caching
> (http://wiki2.dovecot.org/NFS). Some cluster fs might work better.

> The "proper" solution for this that I've been thinking about would be
> to use v2.1's imapc backend with master users. So that when user A
> wants to access user B's shared folder, Dovecot connects to B's IMAP
> server using master user login, and accesses the mailbox via IMAP.
> Probably wouldn't be a big job to implement, mainly I'd need to figure
> out how this should be configured..

Luckily, in my case, User A does not access anythin from User B, but
instead both User A and User B access the same public folder, which is
different from any folder of User A and User B.

Grüße,
Sven.

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