Re: [Dovecot] director and doveadm server

Hello Angel,

Angel L. Mateo wrote:

I've been reading doc at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Director to configure my servers. My question is regarding configuration of doveadm server.

I have configured both, director and backend servers, as described in that doc, but I don't know how to run doveadm commands in director servers.

doveadm is working, because I can run commands, but they are executed in local (director) server.

See http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/Mailbox doveadm help doveadm help who

A few doveadm commands allow the -S socket_path argument where socket_path can be a hostname:port combination of your director doveadm service:

altmove [-u <user>|-A] [-S ] [-r] <search query> expunge [-u <user>|-A] [-S ] <search query> fetch [-u <user>|-A] [-S ] <fields> <search query> force-resync [-u <user>|-A] [-S ] <mailbox> import [-u <user>|-A] [-S ] <source mail location> <dest parent mailbox> <search query> index [-u <user>|-A] [-S ] <mailbox mask> move [-u <user>|-A] [-S ] <destination> <search query> purge [-u <user>|-A] [-S ] search [-u <user>|-A] [-S ] <search query>

The http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Director article explains how to set up a "Doveadm server" on a specific port.

After you have set up your doveadm server correctly, an example command might look like this:

doveadm search -A -S director:24245 mailbox "*" all

but doveadm who seems to be executed just in local:

For "doveadm who" however, you need a local anvil socket, which provides the necessary information:

doveadm who -a /var/run/dovecot/anvil

Remember there is also the proxy list command, since the director is just a proxy with a hash table which always proxies the same username to the same backend:

doveadm proxy list

And another question about this... what is the local config option? I haven't found it documented anywhere.

I assume the local { } section is to restrict the inside options to client IPs located in a specific subnet.

Regards Daniel