[Dovecot] Mailboxes separated from IMAP server

[Reindl Harald]

no i am not kidding you

what i linked is how in professional environments typically things
are done - virtually nobody would talk from one IMAP server to
another one to deliver mails to the client

with clustedred and replicated filesystems you have all servers
accesing the same mail storage and your DNS-record has all of
the servers listed

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round-robin_DNS

so before you assume someone is kidding you google how load balancing
is done in large environments, read the links others provide and if
you are not on a that large environment one server would be enough

Am 21.10.2013 22:10, schrieb Reymer Antonio Vargas Solano:
> Are you kidding me? Is not how or where to store the mailboxes... is how to connect an imap server to another IMAP
> server that have mailboxes!
> 
> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net <mailto:h.reindl at thelounge.net>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     Am 21.10.2013 21:23, schrieb Reymer Antonio Vargas Solano:
>     > At my university we are trying to implement a distributed email backend,
>     > but I have some troubles,
>     >
>     > The topology:
>     >
>     > Server A: Postfix+LMTP # MTA
>     > Server B: Dovecot+LMTP # Just mailboxes
>     > Server C: Dovecot # POP3/IMAP
>     >
>     > Right now the Server A can leave a received email to the Server B, but I
>     > don't know how to communicate Server C to the Server B to retrieve the
>     > emails.
>     >
>     >  I think that we should use IMAP protocol, but I am confused about how to
>     > connect them, I don't know if we have to use a proxy IMAP server, or
>     > another thing.
>     >
>     >  Can anyone give me  an idea?
> 
>     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage_area_network
>     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clustered_file_system

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