The configuration use to be in /etc/dovecot, and the working dir is /var/run/dovecot. You should store your configuration file in the /etc/dovecot. The dovecot.conf file can be copied to dovecot-backend.conf and dovecot-director, for example, and you will use '-c' argument of dovecot binary to load on or another.

If you do this, you will need create two separated working dir, that will be defined in base_dir on each configuration file.

On 09/23/2014 05:39 PM, jjhoffart wrote:

Thanks for the replies, I am still fairly new to dovecot and still learning. This is a quick run down of my setup: 3 servers running iRedMail (this is a package that installs dovecot 2.1.7, postfix, and LDAP). All three servers share an NFS backend. The same 3 servers are also sitting behind a load balancer. What I want to do is use these three servers as directors and mail servers. So from the replies I have gotten I understand that I need to create 2 config files 1 for director and 1 for dovecot. Now my next question is do these config files need to be stored in /etc/dovecot or /var/run/dovecot? Also is creating the second config file as simple as copying and renaming the dovecot.conf file?

On Sep 23, 2014, at 2:26 PM, Eduardo Ramos eduardo@freedominterface.org wrote:

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Hi,

In fact you don't NEED a director. You can use two dovecot servers sharing a NFS storage with a normal (backend) implementation. It's good to see that page: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/NFS for some good recomendations.

You must have a base_dir for each instance of dovecot you want to run, and a dovecot.conf as well. One could be director and other backend. I suggest you have two separated configuration directories, /etc/dovecot-director and /etc/dovecot-backend. Each with the respective configuration. Start dovecot with "dovecot -c /etc/dovecot-director/dovecot.conf". Backend is the same.

In order to help more, provide us more details about your environment and doulbts.

On 09/23/2014 03:57 PM, jjhoffart wrote:

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Hello, I am currently trying to setup a cluster of mail servers. I currently have two servers I am trying to cluster together. These servers will also have a shared NFS backend. I have read on the site that I will need to configure director since I am using NFS. I have read through all of the documentation on director but still need a little guidance to get things up and running. One of the questions I have is about the base_dir on the Multiple Invocations section of the wiki. It states that I will need to change the bas_dir to the new run directory, not sure what needs to happen here, can anyone help me out?