[Dovecot] Failing: doveadm sync <--remote host--> dsync mirror

[Michael Grimm]

Hi --

On 04.03.2012, at 12:35, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On 4.3.2012, at 13.31, Michael Grimm wrote:

>> That doesn't work in my ssh setup, because I'm using a different ssh port and thus have to run:
>> 
>> 	ssh -p 1234 vmail at remote-host.tld
>> 
>> Sorry, I should have mentioned that before.
>> 
>> In your other mail about 'dsync replication' you refer to a config option:
>> #dsync_remote_cmd = ssh -l%{login} %{host} doveadm dsync-server -u%u -l%{lock_timeout} -n%{namespace}
>> 
>> Would that allow for ssh options to be set?
> 
> Yes.

Good news.

>>>> Now, I will stick to 2.1.x because syncing is done without loss of mails (after 10 days of testing).
>>>> The only inconvenience remaining is reappearing of deleted and "undeletable" mail. But it seems that 
>>>> I'm the only one reporting that. How could I help to debug this issue?
>>> 
>>> Is anything else besides Dovecot modifying the mailboxes? Especially deleting mails? No cronjobs or
>>> other scripts that "rm" mails?
>> 
>> No. Only dovecot is allowed to deliver mail (lmtp). Sieve's 'copy:' and 'fileinto' are used as well.
>> But no scripts or such are used to remove mail. I'm running mdbox only. 
> 
> By "undeletable" do you mean you have mails that always come back after expunging them?

Yes. Deleting by the client will return them after the next dsync run.

> I'd like to get dovecot.index and dovecot.index.log files from those mailboxes from both servers, they
> don't contain any sensitive information.

From all mailboxes? I can do that if you wish. But that will need some time (tomorrow).

Thanks and regards,
Michael