Dovecot Director and Dovecot proxy

rub zorghy gdrub13 at gmail.com
Fri Dec 5 14:16:16 UTC 2014


Hi Alessio,

Thank you very much for your detailed explanation.

gdrub

2014-12-01 18:28 GMT+01:00 Alessio Cecchi <alessio at skye.it>:

>
> Il 01/12/2014 17:11, rub zorghy ha scritto:
>
>> Why Dovecot Director server isn't used to perform this without Dovecot
>> proxy ? Thus, the load balancer (F5 Big-IP) can distribute requests based
>> on IMAP protocol to Dovecot Director cluster.
>>
> I think that the slide is just one example of a scenario ,very complex. In
> real world,
> unless you do not have to segment users (some users use Exchange, others
> use Dovecot, but all user use imap.corporate.com, the proxy, for login)
> you don't need a Proxy in front of Director.
>
> Load balancer is only for HA.
>
> Ciao
>


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