Re: The end of Dovecot Director?

On 27.10.22 04:24, Timo Sirainen wrote:

Director never worked especially well, and for most use cases it's just unnecessarily complex. I think usually it could be replaced with:

• Database (sql/ldap/whatever) containing user -> backend table.
• Configure Dovecot proxy to use this database as passdb.
• For HA change dovemon to update the database if backend is down to move users elsewhere
• When backend comes up, move users into it. Set delay_until extra field for user in passdb to 5 seconds into future and kick the user in its old backend (e.g. via doveadm HTTP API).

All this can be done with existing Dovecot. Should be much easier to build a project doing this than forking director. Thank you for putting what is about to be lost to the community edition into an operational perspectiv: no reason to panic. Nobody is taking replicated active-passive pairs from small to medium scale operators. Neither are the hooks required for more fancy load balancing and steering on the chopping block.