[Dovecot] Same filenames on different servers?

[Geert Hendrickx]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 02:18:07PM +0200, Alexander Chekalin wrote:
> Oh, I finally find out the problem. If Dovecot see in the IMAP mailbox
> two message files named equally (say in cur/ and new/ dirs) it renames
> one of them into new name dispute this is the same message.
> 
> I'm not sure if this is intended behaviour. It is quite easy to see such
> situation when doing periodical rsync (SMTP put message to new/ dir, then
> rsync copy it to second server, then message on the first server move to
> cur/, and second rsync results in two files on second server).
> 
> It there any workaround?


You could use imapsync instead: http://www.linux-france.org/prj/imapsync/


It synchronizes two IMAP mailboxes (including message flags etc) independent
of the underlying implementation.


	Geert



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