The end of Dovecot Director?

[Narcis Garcia]

El 21/10/22 a les 7:19, Zhang Huangbin ha escrit:
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>> On Oct 21, 2022, at 4:19 AM, Antonio Leding <tech at leding.net> wrote:
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>> My understanding is that Director is targeted toward large enterprise mail installations that will incorporate several servers for a given function. In such an environment, Director would be the fore-person\traffic-cop keeping things organized & squared-away.
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> Director is used when you setup frontend servers in a load-balance cluster, proxy imap/pop3/lmtp/managesieve requests to backend Dovecot servers.
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> I setup load-balance cluster for clients with HAProxy + KeepAlived + Dovecot Director running in frontend servers, so sad we have to find an alternative to replace Director in such case.
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> It's not about "small/medium" servers, but the demand of imap/pop3/lmtp proxy service, especially in load-balance cluster.
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It's used also to backend a 3rd party mailbox/IMAP for an account.

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