Hello,

I (think I) need to run two instances of Dovecot on one machine
(rationale below, if someone's interested). They access the same mail
share (NFS, maildir), but the indexes are kept on local storage. 
One of them would also provide lmtp service to local MTA.

For now I set the instances to keep indexes separate, in different
directories, but I wonder, if they can share the indexes, to avoid
unnecessary duplication? Of course, mmap_disable = yes, but would
locking suffice? The platform is Linux (Devuan chimaera ATM, equivalet
of Debian 11), filesystem - ext4, Dovecot version 2.3.13 (from
distribution packages).

Why? I have to provide different authentication methods to external IMAP
clients and locally-running webmail; at first I hoped to make it via
remote filter, but docs state that “auth settings currently only support the
protocol filter”, so I had to come with some other idea. It _is_
possible that users would be logged in both via external mail client and
webmail at the same time – and even if not, there's also lmtp, that can
run at any moment.

Sincerely,
Bartosz Stępień
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