director

[Chris Lasater]

Basically the director is just another instance of Dovecot, and the 
base_dir is where the dovecot instance stores its information, so if you 
want 2 instances on 1 server you will need to separate them.  You will 
need to set up 2 configuration files, one for Director and one for 
dovecot.  When I initially did this, I had some issues with the doveadm 
command, where it would look at the default location instead of the one 
in base_dir, I am not sure if this is still the case, but I fixed it by 
deleting the default and setting neither instance to the default base_dir.
     To control 1 instance you can run doveadm with the -i flag using 
the instance_name.  doveadm -i Director stop  and look into the status 
of both instances using doveadm instance list.  I start the 2nd instance 
using dovecot -c /path/to/director.conf
     Hopefully this helps,
     Chris

instance_name = Director
base_dir = /home/user/dovecot/var/run/director

instance_name = Dovecot
base_dir = /home/user/dovecot/var/run/mail


On 09/23/2014 02:57 PM, jjhoffart wrote:
> Hello,
> 	I am currently trying to setup a cluster of mail servers. I currently have two servers I am trying to cluster together. These servers will also have a shared NFS backend. I have read on the site that I will need to configure director since I am using NFS. I have read through all of the documentation on director but still need a little guidance to get things up and running. One of the questions I have is about the base_dir on the Multiple Invocations section of the wiki. It states that I will need to change the bas_dir to the new run directory, not sure what needs to happen here, can anyone help me out?