Dovecot HA/Resilience

[Aki Tuomi]

You can do it using replication,

https://wiki.dovecot.org/Replication

but since you have no staging/test environment, I would advice you to get one.

Aki

> On 09/01/2020 18:45 Kishore Potnuru <kishore.reachme at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Thank you Aki for the reply. 
> 
> But I cannot disturb the version at present as it is a live server and thousands of emails will circulate every hour.
> 
> Could you please suggest me how to create HA/resilience for the existing environment. I have another server ready with the similar configuration. Please provide any steps/link for me to proceed on this? It will be a great help to me.
> 
> Thanks,
> Kishore
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 4:33 PM Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi at open-xchange.com> wrote:
> > 
> >  > On 09/01/2020 18:25 Kishore Potnuru <kishore.reachme at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  > 
> >  > 
> >  > Hi Dovecot team, 
> >  > 
> >  > I need help in configuring HA/resilence for my dovecot (POP3/IMAP) server.
> >  > 
> >  > I have one RHEL Linux POP3/IMAP server with Dovecot version 2.2.10. I also installed the postfix(version: 2.6.6) in it. At present it have around 10 domains and each domain is having around 20 email boxes. It has very simple configuration. 
> >  > 
> >  > User's reading the email via some internal applications/Outlook.
> >  > 
> >  > I would like to create resilience/HA for this environment. Could you please suggest me, what is the easiest way to achieve this?
> >  > 
> >  > If any one can suggest step by step that will be more helpful to me. 
> >  > 
> >  > Thanks,
> >  > Kishore
> >  
> >  You could consider using more recent version of dovecot. 2.2.10 is already over 5 years old.
> >  
> >  Aki
> >