[Dovecot] Mailboxes separated from IMAP server

[Reindl Harald]

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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