Split services to more than one hardware machines

[soringo]

YEs, that's more efficient

rbtux Wrote:thats not correct...

The Dovecot Auth Process opens one connection (resp. two: one for the domains and one for the subdomains...) and send only the queries afterwards...


But when you have fear of slow reaction I suggest you to replicate the sql server to a instance hosted on the mailserver. (Dovecot will only read from your database... You don't need a cluster though...)