[Dovecot] Dovecot mysql replication

[Edwardo Garcia]

What version broken where thiz work like need? Maybe I try.


On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Noel Butler <noel.butler at ausics.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 2013-05-24 at 10:24 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:
>
> > Am 24.05.2013 09:52, schrieb Edwardo Garcia:
> > > But mysql not problemo, it be Dovecot talk to both, do not want
> Dovecot to
> > > talk to both at same time unless slave (local) copy die
> >
> > and this mostly for a good resason to support your argument
> >
> > if you configure "localhost" and the slave in postfix you
> > can be sure in case of postfix that all day long "localhost"
> > is used and only if it fails the slave over TCP/IP
> >
> > dovecot is using randomly the manitudes slower salve and
> > to make it perfectly worse if you reboot the slave in the
> > wrong moment you trigger errors on the dovecot side which
> > is not the idea of having redundancy on the mysql side
> >
>
>
> This is how an old broken dovecot used to work, then someone complained
> and Timo fixed it, I asked him nearly 2 years ago whn he fixed it, that
> since he was changing its behaviour, it would be beneficial for an
> option to make it work only in failover mode, he at the time said "
> might be useful  "  but has said nothing more since, so NFI if he's even
> given it a second thought or even put it on his official todo list
> (since this was back in the 1.2.x days)
>
>
>