Newbie question about replication

Piotr Auksztulewicz dcml at hasiok.net
Mon Oct 19 01:08:05 EEST 2020


On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 11:14:26PM +0200, John Fawcett wrote:
> can you check if the missing emails are in the new directory on host B?

I cannot now. I did not think about that possibility when listing the
contents of directories and have not checked the new directory.

> My guess is that the missing emails appeared on host A in new and were
> replicated to host B in new. Then the imap client connected to host A
> moved them from new to cur on host A and that such movement is not
> subject to replica. So long as the emails have been replicated to either
> new or cur on host B, then it should not be an issue about losing emails
> if host A goes down, since connecting an imap client to host B will move
> the emails to cur (that is no replication involved).

Now that I had connected a client to host B once, they must have got
moved to cur.

The next time I see this, I will check new directory as well. Maybe the
whole issue is just misunderstanding.


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Piotr "Malgond" Auksztulewicz                     firstname at lastname.net


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