[Dovecot] Director problems

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon Jun 11 16:56:31 EEST 2012


On 11.6.2012, at 13.43, Joseba Torre wrote:

>>> I've tried with 3 different users and ips to no change, users are always directed to the same host.
>> 
>> Perhaps you just managed to use such usernames that map to the same director.. You can try with "doveadm director status<user>" to see where they should go.
> 
> I was thinking that users where sent to one server or another in a more or less random way. As always, your guess was right, test[1-4] are all sent to the same server, but for example jorge is sent to the other one.

The "randomness" is basically md5(username)%2.

>>> Second problem: if I try to add/remove/modify one of the dovecot servers, the output of doveadm director map/status seems to be ok, but any new user connection fails with this log:
>>> 
>>> Jun  6 14:51:59 director dovecot: director: Warning: Delaying new user requests until ring is synced
>> 
>> Looks like there's a bug when only one director is used. I'll try and fix it later..
> 
> Thanks a lot for your support

Fixed: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.1/rev/46d01b728647




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