[Dovecot] Dsync fails on second sync for folders with dot in the name

Jan-Frode Myklebust janfrode at tanso.net
Sun Jan 1 21:59:07 EET 2012


I'm in the processes of running our first dsync backup of all users
(from maildir to mdbox on remote server), and one problem I'm hitting 
 that dsync will work fine on first run for some users, and then
reliably fail whenever I try a new run:

	$ sudo dsync -u janfrode at example.net backup ssh -q mailbackup at repo1.example.net dsync -u janfrode at example.net
	$ sudo dsync -u janfrode at example.net backup ssh -q mailbackup at repo1.example.net dsync -u janfrode at example.net
	dsync-remote(janfrode at example.net): Error: Can't delete mailbox directory INBOX/a: Mailbox has children, delete them first

The problem here seems to be that this user has a maildir named
".a.b". On the backup side I see this as "a/b/".

So dsync doesn't quite seem to agree with itself for how to handle
folders with dot in the name.


   -jf



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