Re: [Dovecot] Hints for a NFS-Setup

2012-04-18 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 18.4.2012, at 1.29, Kelsey Cummings wrote: On 03/30/12 07:35, Timo Sirainen wrote: IP stickiness isn't enough if user uses more than one IMAP client, which is pretty common nowadays. And doesn't help at all with LDA. Timo, having the LDA flow through the director with maildir and NFS is

Re: [Dovecot] Hints for a NFS-Setup

2012-04-05 Thread Cor Bosman
On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 02:02:02PM +0200, Patrick Westenberg wrote: Timo Sirainen schrieb: Another director. They're meant to connect to each others and do LB/HA. But what about my MTAs? How can I tell my two postfix servers that there are two directors and it should/can use the other one

Re: [Dovecot] Hints for a NFS-Setup

2012-04-04 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Timo Sirainen schrieb: On Fri, 2012-03-30 at 21:37 +0200, Patrick Westenberg wrote: MTA --(lmtp)--\ /--(lmtp)-- backend1 --\ -- director -- -- NFS MTA --(lmtp)--/ \--(lmtp)-- backend2 --/ IMAP-User -- frontend1 --\

Re: [Dovecot] Hints for a NFS-Setup

2012-04-04 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 4.4.2012, at 14.38, Patrick Westenberg wrote: Timo Sirainen schrieb: On Fri, 2012-03-30 at 21:37 +0200, Patrick Westenberg wrote: MTA --(lmtp)--\ /--(lmtp)-- backend1 --\ -- director -- -- NFS MTA --(lmtp)--/

Re: [Dovecot] Hints for a NFS-Setup

2012-04-04 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Timo Sirainen schrieb: Another director. They're meant to connect to each others and do LB/HA. But what about my MTAs? How can I tell my two postfix servers that there are two directors and it should/can use the other one if the first is down? Now I use relay_transport =

Re: [Dovecot] Hints for a NFS-Setup

2012-04-04 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 4.4.2012, at 15.02, Patrick Westenberg wrote: Timo Sirainen schrieb: Another director. They're meant to connect to each others and do LB/HA. But what about my MTAs? How can I tell my two postfix servers that there are two directors and it should/can use the other one if the first is

Re: [Dovecot] Hints for a NFS-Setup

2012-04-04 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 4 Apr 2012 15:06:29 +0300 Timo Sirainen articulated: On 4.4.2012, at 15.02, Patrick Westenberg wrote: Timo Sirainen schrieb: Another director. They're meant to connect to each others and do LB/HA. But what about my MTAs? How can I tell my two postfix servers that there

Re: [Dovecot] Hints for a NFS-Setup

2012-04-04 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 4.4.2012, at 15.29, Jerry wrote: Now I use relay_transport = lmtp:unix:private/dovecot-lmtp. Even if I change this to lmtp:tcp:1.2.3.4:24 it is still only one director. I don't know if Postfix supports that. Typically people use a load balancer (cluster). Perhaps posting on the

Re: [Dovecot] Hints for a NFS-Setup

2012-04-04 Thread Patrick Domack
Quoting Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi: On 4.4.2012, at 15.29, Jerry wrote: Now I use relay_transport = lmtp:unix:private/dovecot-lmtp. Even if I change this to lmtp:tcp:1.2.3.4:24 it is still only one director. I don't know if Postfix supports that. Typically people use a load balancer

Re: [Dovecot] Hints for a NFS-Setup

2012-04-04 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Timo Sirainen schrieb: where lmtp.example.com expands to your two IP addresses. DNS server handles load balancing by returning IPs in round robin and Postfix handles fallbacking to the second IP if the first one doesn't work. Dovecot has similar behavior in several places. As far as I

Re: [Dovecot] Hints for a NFS-Setup

2012-04-04 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 4.4.2012, at 16.04, Patrick Westenberg wrote: Timo Sirainen schrieb: where lmtp.example.com expands to your two IP addresses. DNS server handles load balancing by returning IPs in round robin and Postfix handles fallbacking to the second IP if the first one doesn't work. Dovecot has

Re: [Dovecot] Hints for a NFS-Setup

2012-04-04 Thread Patrick Domack
Quoting Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi: On 4.4.2012, at 16.04, Patrick Westenberg wrote: Timo Sirainen schrieb: where lmtp.example.com expands to your two IP addresses. DNS server handles load balancing by returning IPs in round robin and Postfix handles fallbacking to the second IP if the

Re: [Dovecot] Hints for a NFS-Setup

2012-04-04 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 4.4.2012, at 16.57, Patrick Domack wrote: Quoting Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi: On 4.4.2012, at 16.04, Patrick Westenberg wrote: Timo Sirainen schrieb: where lmtp.example.com expands to your two IP addresses. DNS server handles load balancing by returning IPs in round robin and

Re: [Dovecot] Hints for a NFS-Setup

2012-04-03 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Fri, 2012-03-30 at 21:37 +0200, Patrick Westenberg wrote: Nick Warr schrieb: I think some of the new Dovecot (director?) software is user aware, but I don't know if it's quite ready for production. Yes, with director it should be something like that: MTA --(lmtp)--\

Re: [Dovecot] Hints for a NFS-Setup

2012-03-31 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Patrick Westenberg schrieb: Nick Warr schrieb: I think some of the new Dovecot (director?) software is user aware, but I don't know if it's quite ready for production. Yes, with director it should be something like that: MTA --(lmtp)--\ /--(lmtp)-- backend1 --\ -- director -- -- NFS MTA

[Dovecot] Hints for a NFS-Setup

2012-03-30 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Hi everyone, as I have often trouble with OCFS2 I want to switch to NFS but I'm not sure how to rebuild my cluster with regard to locking and indexing problems. By now my I have a four server configuration (there are another 2 servers for outgoing mail but they can be ignored): MTA(MX10)

Re: [Dovecot] Hints for a NFS-Setup

2012-03-30 Thread Nick Warr
Il 30/03/2012 13.31, Patrick Westenberg ha scritto: Hi everyone, as I have often trouble with OCFS2 I want to switch to NFS but I'm not sure how to rebuild my cluster with regard to locking and indexing problems. By now my I have a four server configuration (there are another 2 servers for

Re: [Dovecot] Hints for a NFS-Setup

2012-03-30 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 30.3.2012, at 15.38, Nick Warr wrote: As far as I understood I will get poor performance if I'd just switch from OCFS2 to NFS (while keeping this configuration) with 4 hosts accessing the NFS-share and the index files on it and it is recommended to assign users to a specific host

Re: [Dovecot] Hints for a NFS-Setup

2012-03-30 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Nick Warr schrieb: I think some of the new Dovecot (director?) software is user aware, but I don't know if it's quite ready for production. Yes, with director it should be something like that: MTA --(lmtp)--\ /--(lmtp)-- backend1 --\ -- director --