dovecot - Sep 2021 - suse.de dovecot issues

On 10/09/2021 11.33, William Edwards wrote:
>>
>> 2.
>> We have 2 backends so that we can do maintenance on one of them while
>> users can still access their emails through the other backend.
>> However, we found that stopping dovecot on one backend left users
unable
>> to access their mails.
> 
> Director doesn't do health checks.
Is there are recommendation on how to have a director with multiple
backends with automatic fail-over?
Are there scripts that do health-checks and call doveadm director commands?

Bernhard M. Wiedemann schreef op 2021-09-12 10:34:
> On 10/09/2021 11.33, William Edwards wrote:
>>> 
>>> 2.
>>> We have 2 backends so that we can do maintenance on one of them
while
>>> users can still access their emails through the other backend.
>>> However, we found that stopping dovecot on one backend left users 
>>> unable
>>> to access their mails.
>> 
>> Director doesn't do health checks.
> 
> Is there are recommendation on how to have a director with multiple
> backends with automatic fail-over?
> Are there scripts that do health-checks and call doveadm director 
> commands?
https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/dovemon/

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With kind regards,

William Edwards