Hi All,

Firstly, thanks for all the really helpful responses to my previous questions "Architecture for large Dovecot cluster" and "Sizing MTA servers".

I am now trying to get a Dovecot director proxy working with a single backend mail server. When I try to connect to the dovecot proxy on the pop3 and imap ports I get connection refused. I want the authentication to be on the backend mail server initially. I am not sure if I am missing something? More info below...

Thanks

Murray

# doveadm director status

mail server ip vhosts users

27.54.95.41 100 0

# doveadm director map

doveadm(root): Error: userdb list: Disconnected unexpectedly

doveadm(root): Error: user listing failed

user mail server ip expire time

# doveadm fetch -A user ALL

doveadm(root): Error: userdb list: Disconnected unexpectedly

doveadm: Error: Failed to iterate through some users

# doveconf -n

# 2.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf

# OS: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 x86_64 Debian 7.1

auth_cache_size = 32 M

auth_cache_ttl = 2 hours

auth_debug = yes

auth_verbose = yes

base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/

director_mail_servers = 27.54.95.41

director_servers = 27.54.95.37

disable_plaintext_auth = no

mail_debug = yes

passdb {

args = nopassword=y proxy=y

driver = static

}

service auth {

unix_listener auth-userdb {

 mode = 0666

 user = dovecot

}

}

service director {

fifo_listener login/proxy-notify {

 mode = 0666

}

inet_listener {

 port = 9090

}

unix_listener director-userdb {

 mode = 0600

}

unix_listener login/director {

 mode = 0666

}

}

service imap-login {

executable = imap-login director

}

service ipc {

unix_listener ipc {

 user = dovecot

}

}

service pop3-login {

executable = pop3-login director

}

ssl_cert =

ssl_key =

userdb {

args = uid=dovenull gid=dovenull home=/var/run/dovecot/empty

driver = static

}