[Dovecot] dsync - one or two ways?

[Seth Mattinen]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 11:59 -0700, Seth Mattinen wrote:
>>> Now, the question is: Does anyone want dsync to only sync changes from
>>> source to destination, instead of doing a full two-way sync? I think in
>>> typical cases where you'd think you would want only one-way sync are
>>> also the cases where there's no changes coming the other way in any
>>> case.
>>>
>> Yes; moving mail from an old source (for example, my old home dovecot
>> server which still occasionally gets mail, but otherwise I don't really
>> use it). I wouldn't want all my current mail sent to it for this purpose.
> 
> dsync probably wouldn't be such a good idea for this use case anyway.
> dsync assumes that an IMAP client has accessed the mailboxes in both
> source and destination, so if there are any UID conflicts (and in the
> case you describe there would be UID conflicts all the time) it gives
> new UIDs for the conflicting messages.
> 


So is this targeted as a kind of replication solution then?

~Seth