I've got my users in a replicated database setup and dovecot configured with two connect lines in dovecot-sql.conf:
connect = host=127.0.0.1 port=3306 dbname=users user=user password=pass connect = host=127.0.0.2 port=3306 dbname=users user=user password=pass
this works really well to help balance the load.
However, when a new user is created, the replication information sometimes has not made it to the slave database before my user creation process tries to send that new user an email about their new email account. If it hasn't and the email gets sent, then it bounces because postfix thinks the user doesn't exist yet.
Replication usually happens within seconds, but could be delayed due to problems.
I would like a way to see if the new user's information has been replicated yet before sending the email. I was thinking I could use 'doveadm user' to lookup the user, but I am not sure that I can specify one of the specific 'connect' lines in my configuration to check. Is there a way to override that configuration variable to do this test? I tried various incarnations of passing '-o connect=host='... but doveadm user would just ignore them.
thanks for any suggestions! micah
ps - yes, I can make my user creation process just 'sleep' for an arbitrary amount of time and by that time the replication should have occured, but that is a bit of a shot in the dark, and doesn't handle longer replication delays that could potentially happen.
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