[Dovecot] A question regarding doveadm replicator status

[XarHs]

the problem was solved by itself (probably by a full sync!
thanks anyway!


On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 3:00 PM, XarHs <theoxarhs at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am using Dovecot version 2.2.10. I am quite familiar with ssh
> replication and I managed to set it up correctly. The only problem I see is
> that when i run the command:
> doveadm replicator status I get a wrong "Total number of known users"
> which is
> a) is different between the two (2) replicated dovecot servers, i.e. in
> mail1 I get a total of 21 users and in mail2 I get a total of 20 users (it
> should be the same, correct?)
> b) is not matching the total number of users I have in each server (mail1,
> mail2) which I am also getting when counting the total users with "doveadm"
> service enabled. (the command  doveadm user '*' | wc  lists a total of 16
> users for both mail1, mail2 servers, which is also the total number of
> users that exist indeed in the LDAP structure with the doveadm service
> enabled.
>
> Is there any way to reset the value of "Total number of known users"? Do I
> have to delete a file in /var/run/dovecot or something in order to do it?
>
> The only way I tried (not successfully though) to reset it is by executing
> the command:
> for i in `doveadm user '*'` ;do doveadm replicator remove $i ; done
> which does empties all existing users (16), but leaves me with
> Queued 'sync' requests        0
> Queued 'high' requests        0
> Queued 'low' requests         0
> Queued 'failed' requests      0
> Queued 'full resync' requests 0
> Waiting 'failed' requests     0
> Total number of known users   5
> in mail1 server and
> Queued 'sync' requests        0
> Queued 'high' requests        0
> Queued 'low' requests         0
> Queued 'failed' requests      0
> Queued 'full resync' requests 0
> Waiting 'failed' requests     0
> Total number of known users   4
> in mail2 server, i.e. the value is 5 (21-16) for mail1 and 4 (20-16) for
> mail2 server.
>
> After seeing that I tried to restart dovecot service, which again ended in
> the following numbers:
> Queued 'sync' requests        0
> Queued 'high' requests        0
> Queued 'low' requests         0
> Queued 'failed' requests      0
> Queued 'full resync' requests 0
> Waiting 'failed' requests     0
> Total number of known users   21
> in mail1 server and
> Queued 'sync' requests        0
> Queued 'high' requests        0
> Queued 'low' requests         0
> Queued 'failed' requests      0
> Queued 'full resync' requests 0
> Waiting 'failed' requests     0
> Total number of known users   20
> in mail2 server thus their values augmented back to +16, meaning dovecot
> read succesfully my 16 users.
>
> I have not found a way to successfully reset the "Total number of known
> users" numbers back to the valid 16 users, which is also returned by
> running the command:
>  doveadm user '*' | wc
>
> Why do I have those differences? How is the "Total number of known users"
> being calculated?
> What should I do to effectively reset to to the normal value (which in my
> case is 16)?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>