How to reset / remove all replicator users

[Aki Tuomi]

> On 04/12/2020 21:43 Ralf Becker <rb at egroupware.org> wrote:
> 
>  
> After creating a new replication pair, it was started with an old sqlite 
> userdb, we use for iteration / replication.
> 
> The situation was quickly resolved by generating a new sqlite userdb, as 
> it is done hourly anyway.
> 
> Unfortunately I can not get ride of all access users from the replication:
> 
> / # doveadm replicator status
> Queued 'sync' requests        0
> Queued 'high' requests        0
> Queued 'low' requests         0
> Queued 'failed' requests      0
> Queued 'full resync' requests 14
> Waiting 'failed' requests     1
> Total number of known users   724
> 
> / # doveadm user '*'|wc -l
> 507
> 
> The replication process creates again and again a lot (empty) mailboxes 
> on both sides of the replication.
> 
> I tried the obvious with no avail:
> 
> / # doveadm replicator remove '*'
> Error: Replicator failed: User not found
> 
> I also tried restarting the pair one after the other, but it seems the 
> users to replicate are somewhere persisted.
> 
> I'm also trying to delete the users from the newly created (empty) 
> mailboxes, but the number of known users in "doveadm replicator status" 
> is unchanged:
> 
> root:/var/dovecot/imap# for domain in $(ls -1 |grep -v 
> bb-trunk.egroupware.de|grep -v outdoor-training.de|grep -v rbz-); do for 
> user in $domain/*; do echo "$(basename $user)@$domain"; doveadm 
> replicator remove "$(basename $user)@$domain"; done; rm -rf $domain; done
> 
> Any idea what else I can do, or where the replication stores it's users?
> 
> Ralf
> 
> -- 
> Ralf Becker

Probably easiest way for you is to restart the replicator process, e.g. by killing it.

Aki