[Dovecot] Mailboxes separated from IMAP server

[Reymer Antonio Vargas Solano]

Are you kidding me? Is not how or where to store the mailboxes... is how to
connect an imap server to another IMAP server that have mailboxes!

ravs


On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net>wrote:

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> 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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