[Dovecot] database failover

[Robert Schetterer]

Am 10.12.2011 11:07, schrieb Nick Edwards:
> Trying to get dovecot to _only_ use local copy of database, only querying
> another database server (same database, just replicated) if local copy is
> not responding, I have google fu'd a bit and found my only answer in so far
> as dovecot did this once upon as time, but it was only due to a dovecot
> bug, that has since been fixed, is that so?
> The wiki shows no information of failover, just load sharing, or is it an
> undocumented feature, or can dovecot not do failover, if not, can it be
> made so?
> 
> Trying to cut down on network traffic, postfix does this nicely, I thought
> dovecot did too.
> 

as far i know recent dovecot cant do it
youre right postfix does

you can do a master-master setup i.e with mysql
solving this
works nice here, but might not be the best solution
perhaps ldap, or other databases are better
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Best Regards

MfG Robert Schetterer

Germany/Munich/Bavaria