[Dovecot] dsync and pop3 migration plugin fails for large inbox due to idle timeout

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Aug 8 18:59:07 EEST 2012


On 8.8.2012, at 18.28, Nikolai Schupbach wrote:

> Hi Timo,
> 
> Thanks for your fix! Just want to confirm that the re-order of connections has fixed the issue. We still have occasional issues with the POP3 server (locking issues and busy timeouts etc). Because dsync reports sync ok, we have parse to output looking for 'Error: pop3_migration' to determine if it was in-fact ok or if we need to do a re-sync.

v2.2 dsync gives a real error instead of ignoring the problem.

> We have seen some IMAP 'Server dsconnected unexpectedly' errors also (on large mailboxes again), but it doesn't appear to cause any issues. Does dsync reconnect if the IMAP connection is lost?

Yes, the imapc backend code does automatic reconnections.



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