On 10/24/07, Ralph Angenendt <ra+centos at br-online.de> wrote: > Matt Shields wrote: > > Because of the way that the infrastructure is (biz reasons) we are not > > doing shared storage, we have numerous IMAP servers that we distribute > > accounts across. As we add more users, we image up a new IMAP server. > > For our business's scaling purposes this was the best plan. > > > > What I am having a problem is how do I get postfix to transfer the > > email to the particular IMAP server that the user account is on. I > > know that I need to use lmtp and transport, but all the examples I > > have seen show forwarding all email to 1 IMAP server. I would like > > Postfix to do a lookup for each mailbox and determine which IMAP > > server to deliver it to. > > Having no idea how that fits into your already existing infrastructure, > but the Cyrus IMAPD Aggregator (also known as Cyrus IMAPD Murder) looks > like something which should be evaluated - you probably can even drop > the mysql database, as it really doesn't matter to which of the > lmtp/imapd proxies you connect to. >From what I understand about Cyrus Murder, it is for replicating your user data across multiple servers, which is good if you want to load balance multiple IMAP servers and you don't have a shared storage backend. As mentioned we have a web frontend that checks mysql when the user logs in to see which imap server the account resides on. Everyone, I have figured it out. I do plan on posting after I finish documenting the steps (for those interested). -matt