[Dovecot] Hints for a NFS-Setup

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Apr 4 15:39:37 EEST 2012


On 4.4.2012, at 15.29, Jerry wrote:

>>> Now I use relay_transport = lmtp:unix:private/dovecot-lmtp.
>>> Even if I change this to lmtp:tcp:1.2.3.4:24 it is still only one
>>> director.
>> 
>> I don't know if Postfix supports that. Typically people use a load
>> balancer (cluster).
> 
> Perhaps posting on the Postfix forum and asking Wietse Venema would be
> the logical course of action.

I have a guess though, or alternatively a suggestion if it already doesn't work like that:

lmtp:tcp:lmtp.example.com:24

where lmtp.example.com expands to your two IP addresses. DNS server handles load balancing by returning IPs in round robin and Postfix handles fallbacking to the second IP if the first one doesn't work. Dovecot has similar behavior in several places.




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