Hello Timo, On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 8:26 PM, Timo Sirainen <t...@iki.fi> wrote:
> On 10.12.2011, at 12.07, Nick Edwards wrote: > > > Trying to get dovecot to _only_ use local copy of database, only querying > > another database server (same database, just replicated) if local copy is > > not responding, I have google fu'd a bit and found my only answer in so > far > > as dovecot did this once upon as time, but it was only due to a dovecot > > bug, that has since been fixed, is that so? > > The wiki shows no information of failover, just load sharing, or is it an > > undocumented feature, or can dovecot not do failover, if not, can it be > > made so? > > > > Trying to cut down on network traffic, postfix does this nicely, I > thought > > dovecot did too. > > You could add two passdbs + userdbs with different configs. The second dbs > would be used when first db is down, but also for unknown users / wrong > authentications. > > But yeah, the load balancing should be optional. There are just so many > other things to do as well.. > > Yes, it would be nice, but I understand you have many things on your todo list.