Hi --
[Sorry for my private response, instead of public one]
On 03.04.2012, at 01:02, FZiegler wrote:
Now I'd like if possible, to replicate this setup on my laptop and keep both in sync with unison (http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/), which I am already using to sync much of my home dir about once a day.
I found at least one positive message regarding this topic (http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2010-April/048092.html), but I feel I could use some more advice.
I used to sync my two server's maildirs for some years, but I moved to dsync mirroring some months ago, and now I'm into using replicator/dsync (see archive of March 2012).
Unsion mirroring is working in general, but sometimes you might realize some duplicates being produced. Not bad, but it happens. I did realize the same with using dsync mirror instead. It's much better with the new replicator/dsync mirroring scheme, but it's not perfect, yet. (Again, see ML archives of the last weeks).
Namely, which of the ancillary files should I be syncing (or perhaps deleting before sync)? In addition to the mails themselves I'm seeing:
-rw------- 1 fz 501 13 Apr 1 17:10 dovecot-keywords -rw------- 1 fz 501 2483 Apr 1 17:10 dovecot-uidlist -rw------- 1 fz 501 1040 Mar 29 14:50 dovecot.index -rw------- 1 fz 501 44032 Apr 1 17:10 dovecot.index.cache -rw------- 1 fz 501 9772 Apr 1 17:10 dovecot.index.log
and at the top level (in .local/var/Maildir/):
-rw------- 1 fz 501 8 Apr 1 17:10 dovecot-uidvalidity -r--r--r-- 1 fz 501 0 Apr 1 17:10 dovecot-uidvalidity.4efb323d -rw------- 1 fz 501 3288 Apr 1 17:10 dovecot.mailbox.log -rw------- 1 fz 501 4104 Mar 28 10:53 dovecot.mailbox.log.2
I used ...
ignore = Name dovecot*
ignore = Regex .*/tmp$
ignore = Regex .*/\.Drafts$… to ignore all of them. When runnig mirroring for the very first time, I started with one empty maildir at one server, IIRC. You better check that with a test maildir beforehand.
-rw------- 1 fz 501 5114 Apr 1 17:10 subscriptions
That became mirrored.
Regards, Michael