[Dovecot] Setting up the Director
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Hi all,
I'm trying to wrap my head around the Director and how it works, but I'm not having much luck finding documentation. Currently, I have two front end mail servers that use NFS for mail storage. I'm using Cisco's SLB for load balancing, though I may switch over to a server-based load balancing solution at some point.
SLB works great, but it doesn't guarantee that a given user will stick to the same server. At least, not as it's configured now.. But, regardless, I want to move away from SLB so I can have a bit more control.
If I want to implement the Director, do I need to have additional machines, or does it get configured on the front end mail machines? I'm thinking the former, but hoping for the latter.. :P
Does anyone know of a really good write-up about the director and how it works?
thanks,
Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold xenophage@godshell.com
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On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 22:32 -0400, Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold wrote:
If I want to implement the Director, do I need to have
additional machines, or does it get configured on the front end mail machines? I'm thinking the former, but hoping for the latter.. :P
You can run director on the same machines as the mail, but currently you then need to have two Dovecots running in different ports.
Does anyone know of a really good write-up about the director
and how it works?
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Director hopefully will some day.
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Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold
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Timo Sirainen