[Dovecot] Dovecot director - silly questions

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 12:27 +0100, Guy wrote:

> Should I install Dovecot on the software load balancers (IMAP/POP3 and other
> services balanced by haproxy) and configure the director on there?

You need two or more Dovecot proxy-directors somewhere. I don't know if
you should put them to software load balancers.

> I'm also using maildrop at the moment but would like to switch to Dovecot
> deliver at some stage. Since mail is delivered to a random mail server (they
> both have access to the NFS shares), won't I run into the same index
> problem? Should I look at per user transports before then or can director
> also be used to effect Dovecot deliver?

You should use LMTP, which can also be proxied via director.