Dovecot configuration: Home dir not found
Hi, I've my mail solution configured on Server-A with webmail, Dovecot and Postfix. I'm trying to deploy only Dovecot and postfix on Server-B to reduce IMAP/POP3/SMTP load on server-A. Please note server-B does not mailboxes. It should be mapped to mailboxes on server-A. While the LDAP query from Server-B to Server-A is going successfully, the imap service on Server-B is throwing the below error.
imap(user@example.com): Debug: Home dir not found: /mail/vmail/**/
I guess imap is looking for *home dir* in server-B. How do I tel the imap that home dir is on server-A and not server-B.
Please let me know if there exists a configuration parameter for the above..
Thanks Divakar
mount the /mail/vmail/**/ on server-B via nfs.
On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 11:54 AM, Divakar BM bmdivakar@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, I've my mail solution configured on Server-A with webmail, Dovecot and Postfix. I'm trying to deploy only Dovecot and postfix on Server-B to reduce IMAP/POP3/SMTP load on server-A. Please note server-B does not mailboxes. It should be mapped to mailboxes on server-A. While the LDAP query from Server-B to Server-A is going successfully, the imap service on Server-B is throwing the below error.
imap(user@example.com): Debug: Home dir not found: /mail/vmail/**/
I guess imap is looking for *home dir* in server-B. How do I tel the imap that home dir is on server-A and not server-B.
Please let me know if there exists a configuration parameter for the above..
Thanks Divakar
Thanks for suggestion. Starting NFS would consume more cpu on Server-A as I need to start mountd, nfsd (couple more) and also sync from nfs client would further degrade system performance. Is there way of telling dovecot on system-B that *Maildir* is located on server-A and map it to home dir attribute...
On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 2:44 PM Adrian M adrian.minta@gmail.com wrote:
mount the /mail/vmail/**/ on server-B via nfs.
On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 11:54 AM, Divakar BM bmdivakar@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, I've my mail solution configured on Server-A with webmail, Dovecot and Postfix. I'm trying to deploy only Dovecot and postfix on Server-B to reduce IMAP/POP3/SMTP load on server-A. Please note server-B does not mailboxes. It should be mapped to mailboxes on server-A. While the LDAP query from Server-B to Server-A is going successfully, the imap service on Server-B is throwing the below error.
imap(user@example.com): Debug: Home dir not found: /mail/vmail/**/
I guess imap is looking for *home dir* in server-B. How do I tel the imap
that home dir is on server-A and not server-B.
Please let me know if there exists a configuration parameter for the above..
Thanks Divakar
Starting NFS will consume more cpu on system-A, but you will free a lot more CPU cycles by serving half of the IMAP clients directly on system-B. Another option is to use an imap proxy on system-B.
On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Divakar BM bmdivakar@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for suggestion. Starting NFS would consume more cpu on Server-A as I need to start mountd, nfsd (couple more) and also sync from nfs client would further degrade system performance. Is there way of telling dovecot on system-B that *Maildir* is located on server-A and map it to home dir attribute...
On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 2:44 PM Adrian M adrian.minta@gmail.com wrote:
mount the /mail/vmail/**/ on server-B via nfs.
On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 11:54 AM, Divakar BM bmdivakar@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, I've my mail solution configured on Server-A with webmail, Dovecot and Postfix. I'm trying to deploy only Dovecot and postfix on Server-B to reduce IMAP/POP3/SMTP load on server-A. Please note server-B does not mailboxes. It should be mapped to mailboxes on server-A. While the LDAP query from Server-B to Server-A is going successfully, the imap service on Server-B is throwing the below error.
imap(user@example.com): Debug: Home dir not found: /mail/vmail/**/
I guess imap is looking for *home dir* in server-B. How do I tel the imap
that home dir is on server-A and not server-B.
Please let me know if there exists a configuration parameter for the above..
Thanks Divakar
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On Mon, 16 May 2016, Divakar BM wrote:
Thanks for suggestion. Starting NFS would consume more cpu on Server-A as I need to start mountd, nfsd (couple more) and also sync from nfs client would further degrade system performance. Is there way of telling dovecot on system-B that *Maildir* is located on server-A and map it to home dir attribute...
How do you access the messages located on server A from the Dovecot on server B?
On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 2:44 PM Adrian M adrian.minta@gmail.com wrote:
mount the /mail/vmail/**/ on server-B via nfs.
On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 11:54 AM, Divakar BM bmdivakar@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, I've my mail solution configured on Server-A with webmail, Dovecot and Postfix. I'm trying to deploy only Dovecot and postfix on Server-B to reduce IMAP/POP3/SMTP load on server-A. Please note server-B does not mailboxes. It should be mapped to mailboxes on server-A. While the LDAP query from Server-B to Server-A is going successfully, the imap service on Server-B is throwing the below error.
imap(user@example.com): Debug: Home dir not found: /mail/vmail/**/
I guess imap is looking for *home dir* in server-B. How do I tel the imap
that home dir is on server-A and not server-B.
Please let me know if there exists a configuration parameter for the above..
Thanks Divakar
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