[Dovecot] Is replication broken?

[IT geek 31]

Oh agreed.  I assumed that to be what he meant :-)

I'll have a hunt for a numpties guide for migrating from mbox to mdbox.

I found this:

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat

But I think that is hinting at going mbox ---> Maildir ---> mdbox.  Not
ideal.


-Mark




On 13 March 2014 16:11, Charles Marcus <CMarcus at media-brokers.com> wrote:

> On 3/13/2014 10:55 AM, IT geek 31 <itgeek31 at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> Timo wrote this last month:
>>
>> mbox format + dsync replication apparently doesn't work because of lock
>> ordering issues. Might not be easy to fix, or in any case it's pretty low
>> priority for me for now.
>>
>> Sorry for "bumping the subject" again but is there any chance this has
>> moved up the priority list?
>>
>> I don't know if anyone else feels the same... but replication is number
>> one
>> on our Christmas wish list right now :-)
>>
>
> I think Timo's point is the fact that this is strictly mbox related.
>
> Maybe switch to mdbox is an option?
>
> --
>
> Best regards,
>
> Charles
>