[Dovecot] Director and backend on the same server

[James Devine]

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:

> On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 12:55 -0600, James Devine wrote:
> > I have setup director and a backend dovecot service on the same machine
> > using different ports.  The backend service is listening on the default
> 24,
> > 110 and 143 for lmtp, pop3 and imap respectively.  Director is listening
> on
> > 10024, 10110 and 10143 for the same respective services.
>
> I'd make director listen on 24/110/143, so you don't accidentally
> connect there when you intended to connect to director, and end up
> accessing mails via wrong server.
>
> > I can get this setup to work if I have one backend server on a different
> IP
> > listening on 10024, it seems director tries to use the same port it is
> > listening on when making backend connections.
> >
> > If I point it to the local backend server, it tries to connect to itself
> > which fails.  Is there a way to specify the backend ports that director
> > tries to connect to?  I see there is a way to specify the port
> > in director_servers but I'm not sure how I would specify the different
> > ports for the different backend services, if this is even possible.
>
> The passdb lookup can return which port to connect to. Director only
> sets the destination IP, everything else happens the same as with
> non-director proxying:
> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields/Proxy
>
>
>
I setup the static passdb like:

passdb {
  driver = static
  args = proxy=y port=10024 nopassword=y
}

and this works fine for the lmtp service, would I have to run a director
per protocol or can they be combined into one somehow?