Quoting Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>:
A colleague asked me if it was possible for Dovecot to store messages in the cloud.
Does he have a more specific description of what he wants than "in the cloud", or does he just like using buzzwords? - From a user
On 07/10/2018 09:23 AM, dclist@list.jmatt.net wrote: perspective,
I would say that Dovecot, or any other IMAP server, already stores messages "in the cloud". They are on a remote server, accessible from any location by any device that has a functional IMAP client.
I'm glad someone else said it. ;) When I read the OP's message I just sat there shaking my head. As for his colleague, the local McDonald's is hiring.
While I chuckled as well, I imagine what Jerry might be asking is how to use a remote file storage protocol or even a key-value storage backend, or something else that simply provides for remote back-end storage.
I suppose this is for those shops who do not want to spill any potentially confidential data - it's easy to store all of the data remotely with symmetric encryption so it's opaque to the remote provider - but do not or cannot deal with tasks and maintenance of backing up and maintaining the data and storage equipment to support its operations.
I also imagine the hard-working crew at Timo, Inc. have such things for sale to facilitate this with security and good performance, but they won't be inexpensive.
See: http://www.dovecot.fi/products/
"Dovecot Object Storage" is probably what you're asking about, but you know the drill with software that doesn't have displayed pricing: you probably cannot afford it.
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