[Dovecot] Replication on v2.2.6 - I'm stuck (again)

[IT geek 31]

Hi,

Does anyone have any ideas?  I need to iron out these few remaining issues before I deploy this into production...


-Mark


> On 5 Nov 2013, at 10:01 am, IT geek 31 <itgeek31 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Timo,
> 
> Thanks for the info.  I've upgraded to v2.2.7 and made the change.  Now I get:
> 
> Nov  5 11:00:00 server1 dovecot: dsync-server(mark): Error: Couldn't lock /home/mark/.dovecot-sync.lock: Timed out after 30 seconds
> Nov  5 11:00:02 server1 dovecot: dsync-local(mark): Error: Couldn't lock /home/mark/.dovecot-sync.lock: Timed out after 30 seconds
> 
> Also, I get a lot of errors about Dovecot trying to replicate mailboxes for (system) users that don't have them.  Is there any way to exclude users from replication?
> 
> 
> -Mark
> 
> 
> 
>> On 3 November 2013 21:23, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
>> 1) Upgrade to v2.2.7
>> 
>> 2) Use:
>> 
>> mail_replica = tcp:server2.mydomain.com
>> 
>> On 3.11.2013, at 21.53, IT geek 31 <itgeek31 at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> > Hi Timo,
>> >
>> > Thanks for your response.
>> >
>> > Getting it to replicate over TCP is what I'm after.  How do I tweak my config to get it to do that?
>> >
>> > I followed http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Replication, but I've obviously taking a wrong turn...
>> >
>> >
>> > -Mark
>> >
>> >
>> > On 2 November 2013 11:46, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
>> > On 30.10.2013, at 13.01, IT geek 31 <itgeek31 at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > > I'm trying to get Dovecot replication working between two servers.  I
>> > > didn't have much luck on v2.1.3, so after receiving advice from the list I
>> > > have upgraded to v2.2.6.
>> > >
>> > > I now get the error:
>> > >
>> > > Oct 30 11:50:16 server1 dovecot: doveadm(mark): Error: user mark: Auth PASS
>> > > lookup failed
>> > > Oct 30 11:50:16 server2 dovecot: doveadm(mark): Error: sync:
>> > > /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb: passdb lookup failed (to see if user is
>> > > proxied, because doveadm_port is set)
>> >
>> > I don’t think you need to have doveadm_port set, since you’re not replicating over TCP. Remove it and it should just work? Anyway, it still shouldn’t have failed, this fixes it:
>> >
>> > http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.2/rev/47848e9fc622
>> >
>> > also this gives a bit better error message for the PASS lookup failure:
>> >
>> > http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.2/rev/9b45f6d20d9d
>> >
>> >
>