On 10.12.2011, at 12.07, Nick Edwards wrote: > Trying to get dovecot to _only_ use local copy of database, only querying > another database server (same database, just replicated) if local copy is > not responding, I have google fu'd a bit and found my only answer in so far > as dovecot did this once upon as time, but it was only due to a dovecot > bug, that has since been fixed, is that so? > The wiki shows no information of failover, just load sharing, or is it an > undocumented feature, or can dovecot not do failover, if not, can it be > made so? > > Trying to cut down on network traffic, postfix does this nicely, I thought > dovecot did too.
You could add two passdbs + userdbs with different configs. The second dbs would be used when first db is down, but also for unknown users / wrong authentications. But yeah, the load balancing should be optional. There are just so many other things to do as well..
