On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 02:35:55PM +0100, Patrick Westenberg wrote:
>
> - What happens if the MTA accepted a message but the backend-server
> fails and is unable to store it?
Your MTA will be notified about the failure trough SMTP/LMTP error
codes, and retry if it was a temp-failure.
> - What ab
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) -->
Jan-Frode Myklebust schrieb:
MTA -(lmtp)--> dovecot-director ---(lmtp)---> backend-server1
\---(lmtp)---> backend-server2
IMAP-user -(imap)--> dovecot-director --(imap) --> backend-server1
\--(imap) --> backend-serve
Jan-Frode Myklebust schrieb:
Yes, and in ascii-art this becomes :-)
MTA -(lmtp)--> dovecot-director ---(lmtp)---> backend-server1
\---(lmtp)---> backend-server2
IMAP-user -(imap)--> dovecot-director --(imap) --> backend-server1