[Dovecot] Wanting to seperate MTA and Imap

[Peter Fern]

Brent Clark wrote:
> I read the documentation on NFS, but from other sites i have read.
> Most say this is NOT the best solution.
>   

I use NFS, as do quite a number of people - it may not be the best 
solution, but there are few others for realising shared storage at all 
sensibly.  Most of the cluster filesystems I've tested have not 
performed well, and I'm guessing you don't have access to a quality SAN 
to make this sensible.

If you read the doco in the Dovecot wiki regarding NFS you should be 
moving in the right direction.  My only suggestion is that creating 
local caches/indexes (ie - not residing on NFS) on your IMAP servers is 
a good idea - hint: check out the Dovecot doco on 'mail_location'.