[Dovecot] Dsync via dovecot proxy

[Timo Sirainen]

On 8.5.2014, at 15.02, mtrainer at cloud-free.com wrote:

> I need to import mailboxes into my Director NFS setup via
> one of my director proxy's as doing a direct dsync to the backend
> mailstores appears to giving me NFS locking issues. It looks like it may
> be possible to do this using doveadm listeners. I have setup doveadm
> listeners on a test proxy and backend mailstore. I am not sure how to
> make the dsync proxy through to the backend mailstore - it doesn't
> appear to be doing so below. My dovecot configs follow further below. 

dsync doesn't currently work through doveadm proxying. It's definitely something that should be fixed though.

Anyway, dsyncing from wrong server might cause some index errors, but NFS locking errors are probably something completely different. You could try lock_method=dotlock.