[Dovecot] Possible to run two dovecot accessing same directory?

[Curtis Maloney]

Simon Gao wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Just wonder if it's possible to run two dovecot servers on two different 
> machines, but serve out of the same directories.
> 
> I would like to test second dovecot server before switching from first 
> one to second one.
> 
> Any suggestions?

If you're using Maildir, this should be fairly straightforward (with all the NFS 
caveats - see http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation/SharedDisk for a start).

I believe it's also possible with mbox - I know Timo put in a lot of time making 
locking work reliably with mbox.

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