On 27.10.22 04:24, Timo Sirainen wrote:
Director never worked especially well, and for most use cases it's just
unnecessarily complex. I think usually it could be replaced with:
* Database (sql/ldap/whatever) containing user -> backend table.
* Configure Dovecot proxy to use this database as passdb.
* For HA change dovemon to update the database if backend is down to move
users elsewhere
* When backend comes up, move users into it. Set delay_until extra field for
user in passdb to 5 seconds into future and kick the user in its old backend
(e.g. via doveadm HTTP API).
All this can be done with existing Dovecot. Should be much easier to build a
project doing this than forking director.
Thank you for putting what is about to be lost to the community edition
into an operational perspectiv: no reason to panic. Nobody is taking
replicated active-passive pairs from small to medium scale operators.
Neither are the hooks required for more fancy load balancing and
steering on the chopping block.
