The configuration use to be in /etc/dovecot, and the working dir is
/var/run/dovecot. You should store your configuration file in the
/etc/dovecot. The dovecot.conf file can be copied to
dovecot-backend.conf and dovecot-director, for example, and you will use
'-c' argument of dovecot binary to load on or another.
If you do this, you will need create two separated working dir, that
will be defined in base_dir on each configuration file.
On 09/23/2014 05:39 PM, jjhoffart wrote:
Thanks for the replies,
I am still fairly new to dovecot and still learning. This is a quick
run down of my setup: 3 servers running iRedMail (this is a package that
installs dovecot 2.1.7, postfix, and LDAP). All three servers share an NFS
backend. The same 3 servers are also sitting behind a load balancer. What I
want to do is use these three servers as directors and mail servers. So from
the replies I have gotten I understand that I need to create 2 config files 1
for director and 1 for dovecot. Now my next question is do these config files
need to be stored in /etc/dovecot or /var/run/dovecot? Also is creating the
second config file as simple as copying and renaming the dovecot.conf file?
On Sep 23, 2014, at 2:26 PM, Eduardo Ramos <edua...@freedominterface.org> wrote:
Hi,
In fact you don't NEED a director. You can use two dovecot servers sharing a
NFS storage with a normal (backend) implementation. It's good to see that page:
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/NFS for some good recomendations.
You must have a base_dir for each instance of dovecot you want to run, and a dovecot.conf
as well. One could be director and other backend. I suggest you have two separated
configuration directories, /etc/dovecot-director and /etc/dovecot-backend. Each with the
respective configuration. Start dovecot with "dovecot -c
/etc/dovecot-director/dovecot.conf". Backend is the same.
In order to help more, provide us more details about your environment and
doulbts.
On 09/23/2014 03:57 PM, jjhoffart wrote:
Hello,
I am currently trying to setup a cluster of mail servers. I currently
have two servers I am trying to cluster together. These servers will also have
a shared NFS backend. I have read on the site that I will need to configure
director since I am using NFS. I have read through all of the documentation on
director but still need a little guidance to get things up and running. One of
the questions I have is about the base_dir on the Multiple Invocations section
of the wiki. It states that I will need to change the bas_dir to the new run
directory, not sure what needs to happen here, can anyone help me out?
