I'm working on bring up a new mail server to replace our current one.
Our current mail server is running dovecot 1.1.16, with postfix using
mbox format. User inboxes are stored locally on the mail server and all
other mail folders in users home directory under mail which is NFS
mounted on the mail server.
For our new mail server I'm looking to switch to the Maildir format.
Some years ago I remember reading that it was not recommended to run
Maildir format over NFS. Now I'm looking at several posts that seem to
indicate that Maildir should run fine over NFS. I'm a little concerned
about running Maildir over NFS, especially from the howto conversion
pages I read would move all messages over to the User ~/Maildir folder
including the inbox. So having every single mail transaction going over
NFS doesn't seem the smart thing to do.
So question I have for the dovecot team, does running Maildir over NFS
work well? Or would you recommend that all user mail folders be stored
locally on the mail server when using Maildir?
We have about 3400 users, doing about 30k mail deliveries daily. Some
users have 10's of thousands of mail messages in hundreds of mail folders.
Thanks...
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