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

[IT geek 31]

On 10 November 2013 19:34, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:

> On 5.11.2013, at 11.01, IT geek 31 <itgeek31 at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> Every time? I can see how it could happen for the initial dsync that takes
> a long time, but afterwards the syncs should be pretty fast.
>
> Yes.  I started the daemon four hours ago and I'm still seeing that error.
 Oddly, I'm seeing it even though the data hasn't changed - I'm using test
data on a non-production system.  So nothing should be replicating.


> > 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?
>
> Dovecot replicates those users that are returned by: doveadm user ‘*’
>
> How that list is generated depends on the userdbs you have. With passwd
> it’s filtered only by first_valid_uid and last_valid_uid settings. Perhaps
> you can set those to the range of users you actually want replicated.


Where is this filter set?