Sieve Script Replication Gliches (Report #2)

[Stephan Bosch]

Op 7/31/2016 om 4:27 AM schreef Reuben Farrelly:
> Hi,
>
> I've observed some odd behaviour with dsync replication between two
> hosts, specifically to do with sieve script replication.
>
> In short, I have two hosts which replicate in a master-master type
> setup where almost all of the reads and writes happen to just one of
> the two hosts.
>
> They are both running 2.2.devel (9dc6403), which is close to the
> latest 2.2 -git .  Pigeonhole is running master-0.4 .  This is on
> x86_64 Gentoo.
>
> Normal mail replication between Maildir's for all users works fine,
> however it appears that something recently committed to the code has
> broken sieve script replication between the two.  I am sure this did
> once work.  Replication is via tcps: .
>
> Sieve scripts on the lesser-used host are not up to date by an order
> of days/weeks with the main host and they don't seem to re-replicate -
> even if the rules don't exist at all on the replica.
>
> The symptoms and effects look to be the same as this (unanswered) post
> from December:
>
> http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2015-December/102690.html
>
> I am not sure how to view the transaction log files, but I am seeing
> the same symptoms, ie no live replication, and on the lesser-used host
> almost all the scripts were old and some had the 1970 date on them.
>
> Even after forcing a [dsync replication replicate '*'] the scripts are
> not replicated.  As it stands now there are no sieve scripts on one of
> the two members and the system seems unable to replicate by itself.
>
> Secondly, I am also seeing some doubled up outputs if I run 'doveadm
> sieve list -A':
>
> thunderstorm reuben # doveadm sieve list -A
> reuben rules ACTIVE
> liam rules ACTIVE
> kaylene rules ACTIVE
> reuben rules ACTIVE
> liam rules ACTIVE
> kaylene rules ACTIVE
> ...
>
> Has anyone else experienced the replication problem?  Are sieve
> scripts actually replicating in live time for other 2.2.24/2.2.25
> users as well?  For me I didn't notice this till I went looking so I
> wonder if other people are experiencing this but just not aware of it
> yet...?

I will look at this more soon.

Regards,

Stephan.