More than one Mail Server (backend connect to NAS)

i am thinking about something about the mail server failover/clustering/loadbalancing

is there any impact if:

1. i put the maildir and imap folder to the network storage.

2. and and then mount the drive by many mail server

3. and then i put more mx record to process incoming mail.

4. all the mail server is processing the same data.( same folder in the network storage)

is that will cause any impact. ?

or is there anysolution to do the failover or loadbalancing ?

Thanks a lot

garyhui said:

i am thinking about something about the mail server failover/clustering/loadbalancing

is there any impact if:

1. i put the maildir and imap folder to the network storage.

2. and and then mount the drive by many mail server

3. and then i put more mx record to process incoming mail.

4. all the mail server is processing the same data.( same folder in the network storage)

is that will cause any impact. ?

or is there anysolution to do the failover or loadbalancing ?

Thanks a lot

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i like the idea. i am planing to purchase NAS for our backup and might have extra use for the NAS

um... i'd like to know is there any impact to this ?
will the mailbox indexing comes wrong ?

garyhui said:

um... i'd like to know is there any impact to this ?
will the mailbox indexing comes wrong ?

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if using dovecot and maildir format, no. I believe you have to change an option in dovecot to ensure extra locking via NFS.