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On 16/01/2020 20:46 Alexander Dalloz <
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Am 16.01.2020 um 18:04 schrieb Kishore Potnuru:
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I need your help on my issue very badly.
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I have the dovecot version 2.0.9 installed on RHEL linux 6.10 version. It's
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a single Live server. I need to add a load balancer by adding another
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server for resilience.
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I cannot upgrade the dovecot version at this time as it is a single live
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server. If something goes wrong, I will be in trouble.
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Basically the requirement/issue is:
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a) it's a single live dovecot POP3/IMAP server
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b) people are accessing their emails from microsoft outlook (by giving the
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same server name as IMAP and SMTP server). But more than 100000 emails will
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be travelled/routed.
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c) This server is not rebooted from couple of years.
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d) Now they are worried about, just in case if the server is having any
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issues during the reboot
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or
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if something goes wrong with the server in any case, there will be huge
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issues.
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e) They would like to create resilience by adding another server and emails
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will be travelled from both the servers. If one server is having any issues
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due to any technical issue and if it doesn't come back easily, then the
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emails will be travelled through the other server and there will no
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disturbance to the emails. atleast it travels from the other server.
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I have very less knowledge on this. Could you please help me providing the
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best solution for this.
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I will wait for your reply. Please please please help me.
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Thanks,
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Kishore Potnuru
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Don't take it personal Kishore, you probably just inherited that disaster.
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RHEL 6.10 is really old and thus your dovecot version ancient and
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unsupported by upstream. RHEL 6.10 is going EOL by end of Nov this year.
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And I am not sure that system is really a clean 6.10 if it hasn't been
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rebooted since several years as you state.
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Load balancing will not solve your issue. Migrate away from that host to
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a fresh new install with a more current OS and dovecot release. Spin up
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the new system, configure dovecot properly, sync the mail over from the
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old system to the new one. Plan a maintenance downtime where you do a
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final sync and then replace the old host with the new one which you give
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the same identity. The downtime will be minimal.
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This is probably best plan.
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