I have directors and backend servers running on the same systems (x3). To be able to run doveadm foo with a minimum of fuss (without having to list socket paths explicitly), should it be the director that's the "default"? If so, is it safe to symlink '/var/run/dovecot' to '/var/run/dovecot-director', or should I just make the director's base path /var/run/dovecot directly?

in dovecot-director.conf, I have:

service doveadm { inet_listener { port = 8889 } } local 192.168.x.0/24 { doveadm_password = Foo } doveadm_proxy_port = 8888

and in dovecot-main.conf, I have:

service doveadm { inet_listener { port = 8888 } } local 192.168.x.0/24 { doveadm_password = Foo } protocol doveadm { auth_socket_path = director-userdb }

Is this correct (and is there anything unneeded / redundant there)?

# dovecot instance list path name last used running /var/run/dovecot-director director 2014-07-14 20:36:49 yes
/var/run/dovecot-main main 2014-07-14 20:36:49 yes

# dovecot director status mail server ip vhosts users 192.168.x.xx 100 2 192.168.x.xx 100 0 192.168.x.xx 100 0