Removing a mailbox from a dovecot cluster
Francis
francisd at gmail.com
Mon Mar 4 17:35:27 EET 2019
Le jeu. 28 févr. 2019 à 11:18, Francis <francisd at gmail.com> a écrit :
> Le mar. 26 févr. 2019 à 22:58, David Myers <david.myers.24j74 at gmail.com>
> a écrit :
>
>> Hello Francis,
>>
>> I wonder if this is due to how a cluster is configured to function
>> internally.
>>
>> Tell us more about the cluster, is it one of those ‘fancy pants’ high
>> availability, auto backup heart beat things, or is it more a traditional
>> multi server (master slave style) setup.
>>
>> Either way you may need to disconnect the servers from one another and
>> delete the offending files / directories either via dove or or via the os
>> (although reading your original email it sounds like you are already
>> attempting this).
>>
>> If you have a fancy cluster this may actually be more difficult than it
>> sounds and have interesting (unwanted) side effects, also the underlying
>> database (if you are storing emails that way) may have a method to remove
>> data
>>
>> I assume you are keeping back up copies of all those emails somewhere,
>> just in case you need them in the future.
>>
>> See this wiki article to better understand what I mean by the ‘fancy
>> pants’ clusters :
>> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-availability_cluster
>> They sound very cool, but I suspect are overkill for a mail server,
>> unless your database is already inside one then it would make sense I
>> guess.
>>
>>
> Hello,
>
> I just use the cluster/replication functionality integrated into dovecot,
> nothing more. There is no database involved. I use LDAP for the
> authentication. The mails are stored locally on each server and replicated
> with the replication feature of dovecot.
>
> I followed this wiki article: https://wiki.dovecot.org/Replication
>
>
Hello,
So nobody use the replication feature? or nobody never ever remove a
mailbox? or maybe my question is so dumb and I should RTFM something? :)
Do you need more information to help me to debug that issue?
Thanks.
--
Francis
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