[Dovecot] shared mailboxes and indexes

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Nov 23 13:32:51 EET 2012


On 23.11.2012, at 13.27, Alessio Cecchi wrote:

> Il 23/11/2012 08:07, Timo Sirainen ha scritto:
>> BTW. Do you have multiple Dovecot backend servers? Director works only when you're not using shared mailboxes.. 
> 
> I'm not happy to hear that, so if today we are running one dovecot server with shared mailbox enabled and tomorrow we will switch to a more complex installation with Director we will be unable to still provide shared mailbox to our customers?

You can't reliably do it if the mailboxes are accessed directly via NFS. The current idea to solve this is to use imapc backend with master users, so the actual mailbox access for each user is always done by only one server. I think someone already managed to configure such a setup.




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