[Dovecot] Clustering dovecot?

dovecot at corwyn.net dovecot at corwyn.net
Thu May 28 04:45:39 EEST 2009


At 02:00 PM 5/27/2009, Seth Mattinen wrote:
>You're going to need something in front of the two servers to abstract
>the connections (another poster recommended ultramonkey) if you want
>them both to be serviced by the same IP address. My suggestion was to
>use active/standby, where the standby doesn't "up" its mail IP unless it
>detects the primary is dead, typically through some kind of heartbeat;
>not separate clients across the two servers.

I'm not sure what you mean by "client"; do you mean instances of dovecot?

wouldn't that be two server instances, each running it's own copy of dovecot?

Rick

>~Seth





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