director

[Chris Lasater]

The configuration and run/base_dir directories can be where ever you 
like.  The locations Eduardo stated are the most appropriate for dovecot 
installed with an RPM.  Mine were compiled and set in the home 
directory, so they are in a slightly different location.  As long as you 
use the -c to point to the correct configuration file you should be good.
     For mine I kept my dovecot config file in the default location and 
put the director one elsewhere and created an alias, so that I can start 
the director by just typing director.  This might make things easier for 
you to manage, then you can just stop it by running "doveadm -i 
<instance_name> stop"

alias director="sudo -E PATH=${PATH} LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH} 
/home/user/dovecot/sbin/dovecot -c 
/home/user/dovecot/etc/dovecot/director.conf"


On 09/23/2014 05:00 PM, jjhoffart wrote:
>> Thanks for the replies,
>> 	I am still fairly new to dovecot and still learning. This is a quick run down of my setup: 3 servers running iRedMail (this is a package that installs dovecot 2.1.7, postfix, and LDAP). All three servers share an NFS backend. The same 3 servers are also sitting behind a load balancer. What I want to do is use these three servers as directors and mail servers. So from the replies I have gotten I understand that I need to create 2 config files 1 for director and 1 for dovecot. Now my next question is do these config files need to be stored in /etc/dovecot or /var/run/dovecot? Also is creating the second config file as simple as copying and renaming the dovecot.conf file?
>>
>> On Sep 23, 2014, at 2:26 PM, Eduardo Ramos <eduardo at freedominterface.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> In fact you don't NEED a director. You can use two dovecot servers sharing a NFS storage with a normal (backend) implementation. It's good to see that page: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/NFS for some good recomendations.
>>>
>>> You must have a base_dir for each instance of dovecot you want to run, and a dovecot.conf as well. One could be director and other backend. I suggest you have two separated configuration directories, /etc/dovecot-director and /etc/dovecot-backend. Each with the respective configuration. Start dovecot with "dovecot -c /etc/dovecot-director/dovecot.conf". Backend is the same.
>>>
>>> In order to help more, provide us more details about your environment and doulbts.
>>>
>>> On 09/23/2014 03:57 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?