Director to keep redirecting users to the same server even it is down

Hello, why the director always proxying IMAP connections to the same backend even if it is down? Also the director is showing the node as up although I have stopped the dovecot service on it: doveadm director status mail server ip tag vhosts state state changed users Node1 10

Re: Dovecot Director Proxy (Error: lmtp-server: conn Failed to initialize user: Namespace '': Mail storage autodetection failed with home=(not set))

Thank you very much I added this to the passdb block and it worked fine, I appreciate your reply : default_fields = proxy=y ___ dovecot mailing list -- dovecot@dovecot.org To unsubscribe send an email to dovecot-le...@dovecot.org

Re: Dovecot Director Proxy (Error: lmtp-server: conn Failed to initialize user: Namespace '': Mail storage autodetection failed with home=(not set))

Do you mean in the /etc/dovecot/dovecot-openldap-proxy.conf.ext to add =proxy=y? but I do not have this attribute in my openldap server. when using this passdb on the director side, I need to authenticate before sending to the backend, so where to tell the director to proxy not to try to deliv

Dovecot Director Proxy (Error: lmtp-server: conn Failed to initialize user: Namespace '': Mail storage autodetection failed with home=(not set))

dovecot --version 2.3.21 (47349e2482) I have Postfix and two dovecot directors I am trying to setup them as proxy in front of two dovecot backends, I am using openldap, when I set passdb { driver = static args = proxy=y nopassword=y } it is working fine. but If I try to authenticate