[Dovecot] Questions about Proxy/Director

[Patrick Westenberg]

Jan-Frode Myklebust schrieb:

> We use a clusterfs (so it's not very important which backend server the
> user is directed to), and have configured the dovecot director with:
>
> 	director_mail_servers = 192.168.42.7 192.168.42.8 192.168.42.9 192.168.42.10 192.168.42.11 192.168.42.28 192.168.42.29
> 	director_servers = 192.168.42.15 192.168.42.17
> 	passdb {
>    		args = proxy=y nopassword=y
>    		driver = static
> 	}
>
> which gives us loadbalancing of new logins, and also failover should a
> backend server fail.

That looks nice.

What is your frontend configuration?
How many users do you have that you need that many backend servers?
Are your index stored together with the mails?

Patrick