dovecot - Oct 2010 - Setting up the Director

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Hi all,

	I'm trying to wrap my head around the Director and how it works, but
I'm not having much luck finding documentation.  Currently, I have two front
end mail servers that use NFS for mail storage.  I'm using Cisco's SLB
for load balancing, though I may switch over to a server-based load balancing
solution at some point.

	SLB works great, but it doesn't guarantee that a given user will stick to
the same server.  At least, not as it's configured now..  But, regardless, I
want to move away from SLB so I can have a bit more control.

	If I want to implement the Director, do I need to have additional machines, or
does it get configured on the front end mail machines?  I'm thinking the
former, but hoping for the latter..  :P

	Does anyone know of a really good write-up about the director and how it works?

thanks,

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Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold
xenophage at godshell.com
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"Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from
technology."
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On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 22:32 -0400, Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold wrote:
>         If I want to implement the Director, do I need to have
> additional machines, or does it get configured on the front end mail
> machines?  I'm thinking the former, but hoping for the latter..  :P
You can run director on the same machines as the mail, but currently you
then need to have two Dovecots running in different ports.
>         Does anyone know of a really good write-up about the director
> and how it works? 
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Director hopefully will some day.