I am so sad native replication has gone. It is the perfect HA solution because all others depend on HA-storage and that is far less easy to setup than this simple replication. So far, I haven’t found a reasonable solution for small setups such as mine.
I really would like to see it come back in some form, but only ‘live’ (i.e. it doesn’t matter which of the two servers you talk to)
G
On 4 Mar 2026, at 20:40, Marc Singer via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote:
On 3/4/26 10:41, Aki Tuomi via dovecot wrote:
On 04/03/2026 20:19 EET Paul Kudla via dovecot [1]<dovecot@dovecot.org <mailto:dovecot@dovecot.org>> wrote:
what you are trying to do is enable replication
2.3 is supported it is my understanding this was removed in 2.4 (unless you buy a contract)
Paul, replication is not available even with contract. There are some open source alternatives if you want to use replication, e.g. wormhole plugin.
I tried a couple of the open-source replicators. Neither worked and probably for different reasons.
Marc, your problem is that you are trying to setup sync over IMAP. If you are attempting to do this for migration, see [2]https://doc.dovecot.org/2.4.2/core/admin/migration.html
I'll work with those instructions. Thanks. Sometimes, the problem is knowing what this thing is called that one wants to do.
Cheers
If you are indeed trying to do bidirectional sync with tcps you need to configure, on both servers
service doveadm { inet_listener 12345 { ssl = yes } }
doveadm_password = foobar
and then use
doveadm sync -R1 -u USER tcps:OLD_SERVER:12345
Aki
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I am so sad native replication has gone. It is the perfect HA solution because all others depend on HA-storage and that is far less easy to setup than this simple replication. So far, I haven't found a reasonable solution for small setups such as mine. I really would like to see it come back in some form, but only `live' (i.e. it doesn't matter which of the two servers you talk to) G
On 4 Mar 2026, at 20:40, Marc Singer via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org>
wrote:
On 3/4/26 10:41, Aki Tuomi via dovecot wrote:
On 04/03/2026 20:19 EET Paul Kudla via dovecot
[1]<[1]dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote:
what you are trying to do is enable replication
2.3 is supported it is my understanding this was removed in 2.4 (unless
you buy a contract)
Paul, replication is not available even with contract. There are some
open source alternatives if you want to use replication, e.g. wormhole
plugin.
I tried a couple of the open-source replicators. Neither worked and
probably for different reasons.
Marc, your problem is that you are trying to setup sync over IMAP. If
you are attempting to do this for migration, see
[2][2]https://doc.dovecot.org/2.4.2/core/admin/migration.html
I'll work with those instructions. Thanks. Sometimes, the problem is
knowing what this thing is called that one wants to do.
Cheers
If you are indeed trying to do bidirectional sync with tcps you need to
configure, on both servers
service doveadm {
inet_listener 12345 {
ssl = yes
}
}
doveadm_password = foobar
and then use
doveadm sync -R1 -u USER tcps:OLD_SERVER:12345
Aki
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