[rt-users] Multi-tier RT

[Phil Homewood]

Andrew Pollock wrote:
> I figure it's trivial to run the database on a separate host to the Web 
> UI/mailgate, but is it possible to run the mailgate on a separate host to 
> the UI?

It should be...

> My impression of the way attachments are handled by the mailgate is they 
> get split out onto the local filesystem, so the UI would need to be on the 
> same host (or you'd need to remotely mount part of the mailgate host's 
> filesystem onto the UI host (which I don't want to do)).

The attachments are all thrown into the DB, no filesystem access
should be required (but, I haven't done it, so I could be wrong.)

(In 1.0 days, attachments were stored on the filesystem instead of
in the DB, but this is not the case in 2.x.)

In 3.x, the mailgate merely does a post-to-web-form, so it can reside
pretty much anywhere.
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