[Dovecot] Providing shared folders with multiple backend servers

[Timo Sirainen]

On 9.1.2012, at 17.14, Charles Marcus wrote:

> On 2012-01-09 9:51 AM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Sounds interesting... would this be the new officially supported method for sharing mailboxes in all cases? Or is this just for shared mailboxes on NFS shares?

Well, it would be one officially supported way to do it. It would also help when using multiple UIDs.