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On 5/30/13, Edwardo Garcia <wdgar...@gmail.com> wrote: > As oringanal poster, I agree with previouz comment, I too feel thiz > dovecot responsibile for thiz work handoff, or should delete ability to use > two host, people twitter I ask all along thought this how it work too! > > > On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Reindl Harald > <h.rei...@thelounge.net>wrote: > >> so better remove the option to specify more than one host >> instead let people run over years in troubles until they >> find out that a logical behavior like for postfix is not >> given for dovecot's mysql-connections - yes i was one of >> the who thought "hey both works the same way" until >> i realized that dovecot has no fun at reboot the replication >> slave which was intented only as failover and used regulary >> >> *it is* dovecots job if it offers more than one host >> to handle this in a useful way or not support more than >> one host, but you can't seriously say "it's not dovecots job" >> after having a half-baken support implemented >> >> Am 29.05.2013 02:52, schrieb Timo Sirainen: >> > I haven't replied to most of the threads recently. Anyway, after >> thinking about this, I'm thinking this kind of connection fallback >> handling >> isn't really Dovecot's job. A load balancer could be configured to do it >> just as well (whereas LB couldn't do actual load balancing for multiple >> sql >> servers, because Dovecot uses long running TCP connections). >> > >> > On 29.5.2013, at 2.09, Noel Butler <noel.but...@ausics.net> wrote: >> > >> >> But each additional link added to the chain, is one more point of >> >> failure, unless he's replied to OP privately I'm amazed Timo has >> >> ignored >> >> this, since its been brought up from time to time before, if he no >> >> longer plans on doing it, he should just say so, so people can look at >> >> complete alternatives, we are a long way passed early 1.2 series. >> >> >> >> >> >> On Sun, 2013-05-26 at 17:33 +0200, Daniel Parthey wrote: >> >> >> >>> Edwardo Garcia wrote: >> >>>> Yes indeed, so it seem it does not do at all. >> >>>> For now we disable use two hosts, but thiz not optimum for network. >> >>> >> >>> You might try to put mysqlproxy in between dovecot and your mysql >> cluster >> >>> and have dovecot connect to the failover proxy (or proxies) instead >> >>> of >> >>> connecting the database directly. >> >>> >> >>> mysqlproxy makes use of the lua scripting language, where you might >> >>> want to implement the failover or filter mechanisms you need >> >> >