On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 04:15:47PM +0200, Arno van Amersfoort wrote: > This is what I have: > - a fileserver which contains all user home-directories, which are > exported to our mail/ssh server via NFS; > - a mailserver running Courier-IMAP which has the home-directories of > the fileserver mounted under /home. > > What I would like to do is have the Maildir's of all users locally > stored on the mailserver in ie. /mail. This is to increase Courier's > performance but also to allow the Mail-server to work even if the > fileserver is down.The latter is the most important goal because now > whenever the fileserver is down users are also unable to ie. read mail > eventhough the mailserver is still working. > > I guess, it's currently not possible with Courier IMAP(?) but I'm hoping > that the developers may want to have a look at this and see whether they > can implement this.
It's certainly possible. Option 1: stick the mail under /mail as you suggest. Make symlinks from /home/user1/Maildir to /mail/u/s/user1/Maildir Now, if you want users to have direct filesystem access to their maildir, then you NFS-export /mail and mount it on the ssh server. If you don't, then don't. In the latter case, the mail server doesn't need to mount the real home directories; you can make a fake /home hierarchy which contains just the Maildir symlinks and nothing else. Option 2: put the mail user data in a separate database - e.g. userdb, mysql, postgresql, or LDAP. In that case, you can point each user's homedir to any location you like, e.g. /mail/user1, which is different from the system homedir. Or you can set home=/home/user1 but mail=/mail/user1/Maildir If your current user data is in the system password file, there's a utility to convert it into userdb format automatically. I'd lean towards option 2 if you want to build a mail 'appliance' where users have only access via mail protocols (e.g. POP3, IMAP) to access their mail. I'd lean towards option 1 if your users are tech-savvy and want full filesystem access to their mail, .forward files and so on. Regards, Brian. Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Courier-imap mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-imap
