25 Nov
2011
25 Nov
'11
10:17 a.m.
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 11:58:01PM +0100, Patrick Westenberg wrote:
What is your frontend configuration?
The frontend is two servers running dovecot director, and ucarp for managing failover ip-addresses.
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# 2.0.14: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.x
director_mail_servers = 192.168.42.7 192.168.42.8 192.168.42.9 192.168.42.10 192.168.42.11 192.168.42.28 192.168.42.29
director_servers = 192.168.42.15 192.168.42.17
disable_plaintext_auth = no
listen = *
lmtp_proxy = yes
passdb {
args = proxy=y nopassword=y
driver = static
}
service anvil {
client_limit = 2051
}
service auth {
client_limit = 4196
unix_listener auth-userdb {
user = dovecot
}
}
service director {
fifo_listener login/proxy-notify {
mode = 0666
}
inet_listener {
port = 5515
}
unix_listener director-userdb {
mode = 0600
}
unix_listener login/director {
mode = 0666
}
}
service imap-login {
executable = imap-login director
process_limit = 1024
}
service lmtp {
inet_listener lmtp {
address = *
port = 24
}
}
service pop3-login {
executable = pop3-login director
process_limit = 1024
}
ssl_cert =
How many users do you have that you need that many backend servers?
How many users do you have that you need that many backend servers?
I don't think I'm allowed to share that externally, sorry. This is the mail-system of an ISP, so we have quite a few users.. :-)
Are your index stored together with the mails?
They're not stored together, because we made the error of not creating a home directory for our users, but both maildirs and indexes are stored on similar cluster fs' (GPFS).
-jf