The 'noreplicate' user database field described in the wiki appears to make no difference as to whether an account gets replicated or not. My sql user query returns a 'noreplicate' field and I can confirm that this is getting set using 'doveadm user', however when I add a new account with noreplicate=true it gets replicated regardless.
User query: user_query = SELECT home, uid, gid, noreplicate FROM mail_accounts WHERE address = '%u'
# doveadm user user1@mydomain.com field value uid 1000 gid 1000 home /mail/domains/mydomain.com/user1/Maildir mail maildir:/mail/domains/mydomain.com/user1/Maildir noreplicate t
# 2.3.3 (dcead646b): /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.5.3 (f018bbab) # OS: FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE-p4 amd64 # Hostname: mx doveadm_password = # hidden, use -P to show it doveadm_port = 2727 imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep listen = * mail_location = maildir:%h managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date index ihave duplicate mime foreverypart extracttext namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { mail_replica = tcps:mail2.<mydomain>.com } protocols = imap lmtp submission replication_full_sync_interval = 6 hours service aggregator { fifo_listener replication-notify-fifo { user = vmail } unix_listener replication-notify { user = vmail } } service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-userdb { user = vmail } user = root } service doveadm { inet_listener { port = 2727 ssl = yes } } service imap-login { inet_listener imaps { address = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx port = 993 } process_limit = 256 process_min_avail = 6 service_count = 1 vsz_limit = 64 M } service replicator { process_min_avail = 1 unix_listener replicator-doveadm { mode = 0600 user = vmail } } ssl = required ssl_cert =