On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:17:12AM +0100, Patrick Westenberg wrote:
No. I want to know if dovecot writes to the indexes if it receives a mail via lmtp.
Someone proposed to store the index files on a locally installed SSD on a frontend (imap) machine and stick the users to that machine but if the lmtp-service writes to the indexes (and I think he does), that machine needs access to the indexes too which will bring us back to shared storage.
Ah, then Timo's reply was right. He suggested you do the lmtp-deliveries to the same server that you would send you imap-user to. You can do this trough dovecot director and lmtp-proxying.
So instead of:
lmtp:unix:private/dovecot-lmtpyou should use:
lmtp:tcp:1.2.3.4:24where 1.2.3.4 would be the Dovecot LMTP proxy that proxies to the same machine as you would use for imap for this particular recipient.
-jf