Re: [Dovecot] How to disable Director service?

17 Apr 2014

      Hi Reindl,
There was no configuration on director side.
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# doveconf -n | grep director
#
# doveconf -a
...........................
director_doveadm_port = 0
director_mail_servers =
director_servers =
director_user_expire = 15 mins
director_username_hash = %Lu
...........................
service director {
chroot = .
client_limit = 0
drop_priv_before_exec = no
executable = director
extra_groups =
fifo_listener login/proxy-notify {
group =
mode = 00
user =
}
group =
idle_kill = 4294967295 secs
privileged_group =
process_limit = 1
process_min_avail = 0
protocol =
service_count = 0
type =
unix_listener director-admin {
group =
mode = 0600
user =
}
unix_listener login/director {
group =
mode = 00
user =
}
user = $default_internal_user
vsz_limit = 18446744073709551615 B
}
...........................
# tail -n 20 /var/log/mail.log | grep -i 'director\:'
dovecot: director: Error: Empty server list
dovecot: director: Fatal: Invalid value for director_mail_servers setting
dovecot: director: Error: Empty server list
dovecot: director: Fatal: Invalid value for director_mail_servers setting
dovecot: director: Error: Empty server list
dovecot: director: Fatal: Invalid value for director_mail_servers setting
dovecot: director: Error: Empty server list
dovecot: director: Fatal: Invalid value for director_mail_servers setting
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That said, I think I've found a configuration combination that works:
configure the "director_mail_servers = <IP address>" on the backend
server with all other director config commented out. But this is more a
hacking way.
Cheers,
Wesley
On 14-04-17 02:41 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
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Does anyone know how to disable the Director service.  In our current running Dovecot 2.2.4, if the director
configuration is commented out and Dovecot has no errors nor warnings. But the version 2.2.12 I'm testing with
gives out fatal errors.  We have dedicated Dovecot Director servers that serve the public frontend and separate
dedicated imap/pop3 servers on the backend internal network. With the new version, Dovecot is always trying to
start Director service and I couldn't find a way to stop Dovecot from giving out errors.

When the entire Director configuration block is commented out, there errors:

dovecot: director: Fatal: No inet_listeners defined for director service (for standalone keep director_servers empty)
dovecot: master: Error: service(director): command startup failed, throttling for 2 secs
you must have done something wrong, that below is a production "dobecont.conf"
with no config-includes and such crap running as imap/pop3-proxy as well as
Am 17.04.2014 20:35, schrieb Wesley Huang:
postfix-auth-service and there is no single bit for director, that config runs
at least 4 years unchanged, saw 2.2.12 also as it runs currently on 2.2.13
while the last real config cahnge was 1.x to 2.x
so what about post output of "dovecont -n" to help people helping you
even do yourself a "dovecot -n | grep director"

# provided services
protocols                      = imap pop3
# configure ssl
ssl                            = yes
ssl_cert                       = 
# configure imap-proxy
service imap-login {
inet_listener imap {
address                    = **.**.**.**
port                       = 143
}
inet_listener imaps {
address                    = **.**.**.**
port                       = 993
}
vsz_limit                    = 64M
service_count                = 1
process_min_avail            = 0
process_limit                = 100
}
# configure pop3-proxy
service pop3-login {
inet_listener pop3 {
address                    = **.**.**.**
port                       = 110
}
inet_listener pop3s {
address                    = **.**.**.**
port                       = 995
}
vsz_limit                    = 64M
service_count                = 1
process_min_avail            = 0
process_limit                = 100
}
# default settings
imap_capability                = IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 ACL RIGHTS=texk NAMESPACE CHILDREN SORT QUOTA
THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT UNSELECT IDLE
login_greeting                 =
login_log_format_elements      = %u %r %m %k
mail_max_userip_connections    = 100
auth_mechanisms                = CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5 SCRAM-SHA-1 APOP LOGIN PLAIN
disable_plaintext_auth         = no
shutdown_clients               = no
version_ignore                 = yes
# Logging
syslog_facility                = mail
# authentication process
auth_worker_max_count          = 50
auth_cache_size                = 1024
auth_cache_ttl                 = 600
auth_cache_negative_ttl        = 600
auth_username_chars            = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@%
auth_username_translation      = %@AaBbCcDdEeFfGgHhIiJjKkLlMmNnOoPpQqRrSsTtUuVvWwXxYyZz
# debug options
auth_debug                     = no
auth_debug_passwords           = no
auth_verbose                   = no
mail_debug                     = no
verbose_ssl                    = no
# configure proxy-database
passdb {
driver                        = sql
args                          = /etc/dovecot/sql.conf
}
# we are not using local users
userdb {
driver                        = static
args                          = static uid=10000 gid=10000 home=/dev/null
}
# configure backend for postfix sasl-auth
service auth {
unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
mode                         = 0660
user                         = postfix
group                        = postfix
}
}