Dovecot director and backend on same server

29 Aug 2023


      Hi,
I'm attempting to run both the director and the backend under the same
configuration on the same server. When I run doveadm director map I
don't get any output. I have a shared file system between servers and
clients can access any server. I was running without a director in front
and seeing index corruption so I'm now attempting to use a director. I
enabled additional logging for now but that didn't explain much.
Dovecot version: 2.3.20 (80a5ac675d) on Alpine Linux v3.18.2
Dovecot configuration (doveconf -n) with some bits removed.
# Pigeonhole version 0.5.19 (4eae2f79)
# OS: Linux 6.1.43-0-lts x86_64
# Hostname: <REDACTED>
auth_debug = yes
auth_socket_path = director-userdb
director_mail_servers = 192.168.252.2 192.168.252.3 192.168.252.4
192.168.252.5 192.168.252.20
director_servers = 192.168.252.2 192.168.252.3 192.168.252.4
192.168.252.5 192.168.252.20
imap_hibernate_timeout = 5 secs
log_debug = events=*
login_trusted_networks = 192.168.252.0/24
mail_debug = yes
mail_fsync = always
mail_gid = vmail
mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:LAYOUT=fs
mail_nfs_index = yes
mail_nfs_storage = yes
mail_plugins = acl quota
mail_uid = vmail
managesieve_notify_capability = mailto
managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope
encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric
relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify
environment mailbox date index ihave duplicate mime foreverypart
extracttext imapsieve vnd.dovecot.imapsieve
mmap_disable = yes
namespace inbox {
inbox = yes
location =
mailbox Bin {
auto = subscribe
autoexpunge = 30 days
special_use = \Trash
}
mailbox Drafts {
auto = subscribe
special_use = \Drafts
}
mailbox Sent {
auto = subscribe
special_use = \Sent
}
mailbox Spam {
auto = subscribe
autoexpunge = 30 days
special_use = \Junk
}
prefix =
}
passdb {
args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext
driver = sql
}
plugin {
acl = vfile
quota = maildir:quota
quota_rule = *:storage=5G
quota_rule2 = Bin:ignore
quota_rule3 = Spam:ignore
sieve = file: ~/sieve;active=~/dovecot.sieve
sieve_plugins = sieve_imapsieve
}
protocols = imap lmtp sieve
service auth {
unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
group = postfix
mode = 0660
user = postfix
}
}
service director {
fifo_listener login/proxy-notify {
mode = 0600
user = $default_login_user
}
inet_listener {
port = 9090
}
unix_listener director-admin {
mode = 0600
}
unix_listener director-userdb {
mode = 0600
}
unix_listener login/director {
mode = 0666
}
}
service imap-login {
executable = imap-login director
}
service imap {
user = vmail
}
service ipc {
unix_listener ipc {
user = dovecot
}
}
service lmtp {
unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp {
group = postfix
mode = 0600
user = postfix
}
user = vmail
}
service managesieve-login {
executable = managesieve-login director
inet_listener sieve {
port = 4190
}
}
ssl = required
ssl_cert = 
Regards,
Michael Cassaniti