Mel P via dovecot <[email protected]> wrote:

> Michael, you mentioned turning your back on Dovecot.  I'm curious what you're 
> switching to from Dovecot?

First I need to mention, that I ran Dovecot in replication mode for many years 
in a setup for a handful of users, only. Thus the volume of mails are at the 
very lower bottom for an IMAP server.

Now, I do run dbmail [1] and thus keep my mails stored in a MariaDB Galera 
cluster [2]. Between the MUA and dbmail I do run HAProxy as a "surrogate" for 
Dovecot's now gone director. As my traffic is at the lower end I can afford to 
direct all IMAP communications to one Galera node, only [3]. During failover 
situations HAProxy directs traffic to one of the remaining cluster nodes.

This is up running for some month now, and I am very happy with it.

But I know, others "milages may vary", though ;-)

Regards,
Michael

[1] https://dbmail.org/en/
[2] 3 nodes, primary-primary replication. This is my "surrogate" for Dovecot's 
replication. One may replace a third MariaDB node and run garbd for achieving a 
quorum.
[3] This prevents split brain situations


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