Michael Sofka wrote: > We do this with cyrus 2.2.12 (2 frontend, 1 master, 3 backend > server) no problem. Some of the shared mailboxes are on > one server, while subscribers are on another. > > We run the frontend servers in proxy mode only. Can you elaborate on "proxy mode only" mode? Here are the pertinent parts of my cyrus.conf on the frontends: SERVICES { mupdate cmd="mupdate" listen=2004 prefork=1 imap cmd="proxyd" listen="imap" prefork=0 maxchild=4096 imaps cmd="proxyd -s" listen="imaps" prefork=0 maxchild=4096 pop3 cmd="pop3proxyd" listen="pop3" prefork=0 maxchild=1024 pop3s cmd="pop3proxyd -s" listen="pop3s" prefork=0 maxchild=1024 sieve cmd="timsieved" listen="sieve" prefork=0 lmtp cmd="lmtpproxyd" listen="lmtp" prefork=0 maxchild=64 smmapd cmd="smmapd" listen=2020 prefork=50 } Thanks. -- Eli Ben-Shoshan ebs@xxxxxxx > > Mike > > -- > Michael D. Sofka > Sr. Systems Programmer, Postmaster pro tem > Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute > > > ==============Original message text=============== > On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 13:55:12 EDT Eli Ben-Shoshan wrote: > > Hi all. We have a largish (~120,000 user / ~ 485,000 mailboxes) cyrus 2.2 > install that is spread across 6 frontends and 4 backends in a murder and I just > had an interesting question that I can't seem to answer. We have a number of > shared mailboxes that get certain types of messages such as abuse mail and spam > reports. Recently more people wish to subscribe to these mailboxes but we have > run into a small problem. Most of these people do not have their inboxes on the > same backend and therefore they can not subscribe to the shared mailbox using > their mail client. Does anyone have a workaround for this or even encountered > this problem? I tried editing the subscription file by hand since our > subscription_db is set to flat but that did not work. Thanks. > ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html