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This feature is available with artica version 1.3.092420

To build a frontends cluster, you need 2 servers minimals (best will be 3).

The goal is to replicate this schema :

Create a frontend and notfiy a server to be a backend.

This operation will notifiy a server to be a frontend and notify a server to be a backend.

• Each server must store all messaging features (Postfix, cyrus-imap) with  artica 1.3.092420 minimal version.
• It is important that all servers could resolves all hostnames and the fqdn names before perform this operation.
• hostnames  sould not be changed after this operation.
• Artica port (9000), LDAP port (389), murder port (3905) must be open between servers 
• Go into the frontend Artica interface page
• Under the Messaging/Mailboxes section, click on "Cyrus IMAP Aggregator" icon.

• Click on the wizard icon.

• On the form, set the backend name server  and set the Artica SSL port, Administrator user name and password (by default 9000/admin/secret).
• Click on Connect And Next Step. button

 

Artica will send connections to the backend in order to be sure that the target server is ready to be a backend.

If the connections operation are success,you should be click on "Link this server to Backend Now"

After clicking on this button :

1. Artica will notify your server to be a IMAP/POP3 proxy and the targeted server to be a backend and store mailboxes.
2. Service will be restarted on the 2 servers.
3. The frontend server will only use the backend LDAP database to authenticate users. (In this case, the LDAP database on the frontend will be not used).
4. All messages will be stored on the backend server, frontends hare just proxies.