Ed W wrote: > >> http://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/ImapProxy >> >> Works quite well here. >> > > This is very interesting > > Does it work ok if you want to have one machine handle the nearly all > the normal IMAP traffic, but it has the ability to proxy a few users to > a different server? > > ie do you need to set it up as a proxy in front of another server, or > can you have a hybrid server?
We have dedicated proxies, but I doesn't look difficult to proxy some connections and not others. Just add the appropriate fields, it would seem, though I've never tried it. > In conjuction with some kind of imap folder sync this would be quite > cool in a multi-office setup where you can then easily move users > mailbox to the closest server where they are working and a few DNS > tricks would allow them to turn up in any office and immediately start > working. We use mysql for the backend so it simply requires an UPDATE statement to point a user to a different drbd storage set. We use rsync to move domains from set to set when necessary.
