On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 02:38:43PM +0100, Patrick Westenberg wrote: > Jan-Frode Myklebust schrieb: > > >MTA -(lmtp)--> dovecot-director ---(lmtp)---> backend-server1 > > \---(lmtp)---> backend-server2 > > > > > >IMAP-user -(imap)--> dovecot-director --(imap) --> backend-server1 > > \--(imap) --> backend-server2 > > In this scenario it should be possible to use a non cluster filesystem > to store my mails, isn't it?
Yes, that should work fine -- assuming you have acceptable uptime on the backend server that is hosting the messages. You also need to configure a user<->backend-server mapping trough proxy extrafield to make sure that the user lands on the correct server: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields/Proxy -jf