[Dovecot] 2 node dovecot

[Timo Sirainen]

On 26.12.2012, at 22.01, Lazy <lazy404 at gmail.com> wrote:

> We run dovecot 2.1 on 2 nodes with shared nfs storage. Index files are
> kept on local disk.
> Second node is usually used only for email snapshots access. If
> primary node fails it is configured to
> take place of the primary imap server.
> 
> Snapshots are additional namespaces with mail from various points in
> time. We need a way to easly copy
> multiple messages from snapshots to current mailboxes. It would be
> best to make current mailbox available
> as another namespace so one would simply copy messages from one folder
> to another.
> 
> Is it safe ? There will be times when given user is writing to the
> same nfs based Maildir mailbox from 2 nodes
> both of them having separate index files. What will happen if already
> present message gets copied back
> from the snapshot ?

If the snapshots are entirely different files/directories, then there shouldn't be any trouble. If the same message gets copied it's simply duplicated.

If the snapshots have one or more files shared with the non-snapshots, then I don't really understand your setup.

You can anyway use namespaces or doveadm import.