Use a different Host to store Imap Data on

[Andrew Morgan]

On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, Alexander Schröter wrote:

> Hello Everybody
>
> a little bit about my situation. I currently use a Kolab Server and my ISPs
> Mailserver. Since my ISPs Mailserver has a nearly 100% Uptime, a lot of
> Storage Space and Automated Backup. I want to use it as storage space for the
> kolab's imap data.
>
> The problem is that I only have access to my ISPs Server via Imap. So my
> question is:
>
> Is it possible to tell cyrus to store the mail not on the local machine but on
> my ISPs Imap account.
>
> I saw that it's possible to introduce a new partition to cyrus in the
> imapd.conf and than tell the process to use this as new storage location for
> certain users via "renamemailbox user.foobar.mail user.foobar.mail
> newpartition".
>
> You now know what I am looking for and I am open for other ideas.

Cyrus stores its emails on the local filesystem.  It cannot store mail 
remotely in a separate IMAP server (Cyrus is already an IMAP server).

However, it seems possible that you can reconfigure Kolab to use your ISPs 
IMAP server instead of the locally installed Cyrus IMAP server.  I've 
never used Kolab, so I don't know how you might go about doing this or if 
Kolab supports this.

 	Andy