[Dovecot] Postfix and Dovecot

[Leonardo Coelho]

Change the hostname parameters on server mail2 to mail the email files keep
the mail2 on the end.

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Robert Schetterer
<robert at schetterer.org>wrote:

> Leonardo Coelho schrieb:
> > Hi Everybody,
> > I'm mount two failover servers which use Postfix and Dovecot but the
> > hostname of the machines r diferent:
> > first node
> > # uname -n
> > # mail
> > secound node
> > #uname -n
> > #mail2
> > So far so good, the real problem is that the e-mail file name on server
> is
> > like this:
> >
> > 1232449377.P31789Q0M963611.mail2
> >
> > and when I using the server called mail the file stay like this:
> >
> > 1232449377.P31789Q0M963611.mail
> >
> > I'm using drbd disk for the mailboxes and when I'm using the server
> called
> > mail the files with mail2 on the end is not read for the dovecot when the
> > user turn on the mail client but if I change the end from mail2 to mail
> > that's ok the dovecot can read.
> >
> > How can I make dovecot read both files or any name on the end?
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> >
> Hi i may fail here, but
> wouldnt it be better to have real loadbalancing
> ( which includes failover ) on a loadbalanced shared ip
> an configure postfix and dovecot using same hostname ?
> then there should not be any differnce in a mails filename
>
> but evtl this solves your problem more easy
> depends on your setup if using lda
>
> from example
> ##
> ## LDA specific settings
> ##
>
> protocol lda {
>  # Address to use when sending rejection mails.
>  postmaster_address = postmaster at example.com
>
>  # Hostname to use in various parts of sent mails, eg. in Message-Id.
>  # Default is the system's real hostname.
>  #hostname =
>
>
> --
> Best Regards
>
> MfG Robert Schetterer
>
> Germany/Munich/Bavaria
>



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