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Helping doveadm sync detect moves between Maildir mailboxes? (reproducible example of bad behaviour)
by falsifian＠falsifian.org 02 Oct '24

02 Oct '24

Hi, Moving mail files between Maildir mailboxes often confuses doveadm sync: I end up with copies in both the original and new maildir. Exact details and script to reproduce follow. I can work around this by running doveadm move, but it does not fit well with my workflow, which is based on paths to mail files (using mblaze as my mail client). Two questions: 1. Is there anything I can do to help dovecot notice the moves, other than using doveadm move instead of just mv? I have tried liberal use of force-resync but the problem is still there. 2. Is this a bug? Details: OS: OpenBSD current $ dovecot --version 2.3.21.1 (d492236fa0) config: My repro script below uses a one-line config, only setting mail_location. (An OpenBSD 7.5 server running Dovecot 2.3.21 is involved in my real setup, but I was able to reproduce it locally without the server involved.) To reproduce: (shell script follows) - Make two maildirs "a" and "b", each with a subfolder ".Archive". - Manually write a mail file to a/cur. - doveadm sync - force-resync everything - manually move the file to a/.Archive/cur - force-resync everything again - doveadm sync - Now the mail file appears four times: in a, a/.Archive, b, and b/.Archive. Script to do the above follows my signature. -- James #!/bin/sh set -e # Run in a new directory with two maildirs named a and b and a simple config. mkdir bug; cd bug mkdir -p {a,b}/{,.Archive/}{cur,new,tmp} cat > dovecot.conf <<EOF mail_location=maildir:$PWD/a EOF # Deliver an email and sync. EXAMPLE_ID=12345.R67890.example.com cat > a/cur/$EXAMPLE_ID:2, <<EOF some email EOF doveadm -c dovecot.conf sync maildir:b # Move the email and sync again. Run force-resync between steps in case it helps. doveadm -c dovecot.conf force-resync INBOX doveadm -c dovecot.conf force-resync Archive doveadm -c dovecot.conf -o mail_location=maildir:$PWD/b force-resync INBOX doveadm -c dovecot.conf -o mail_location=maildir:$PWD/b force-resync Archive mv a/cur/$EXAMPLE_ID* a/.Archive/cur doveadm -c dovecot.conf force-resync INBOX doveadm -c dovecot.conf force-resync Archive doveadm -c dovecot.conf -o mail_location=maildir:$PWD/b force-resync INBOX doveadm -c dovecot.conf -o mail_location=maildir:$PWD/b force-resync Archive doveadm -c dovecot.conf sync maildir:b echo in a: doveadm -c dovecot.conf -fflow fetch 'mailbox guid' all echo echo in b: doveadm -c dovecot.conf -fflow -o mail_location=maildir:$PWD/b fetch 'mailbox guid' all

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