a) Use mdbox format instead of maildir. It works better with dsync.

ok, I'll try that

(although I was hoping I could avoid migrating all boxes on the server I was planning to use this feature)

b) Switch to v2.2 (latest hg version). It has a rewritte dsync that works better.

the testsetup is already on 2.2 hg

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On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:27:08 +0200 Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi> wrote:

Oh. But it's still beta1. There are several fixes done to dsync since beta1, including a fix for these maildir errors. I should release beta2 or maybe rc1 soon.

hmm.. actually I think I built it from the latest hg (but I must admit I'm not really familiar with mercurial, so maybe I f*ckd up)

dovecot -n tells me # 2.2.beta1 (070ca24e5846+): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf

and 070ca24e5846 seems to be the latest commit according to http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.2/ (14 hours ago). not exactly sure why it says something about beta1.

I tried with mdbox now.. same problem, although I don't see "Expunged message reappeared" anymore , but still tons of these:

Server1: Jan 31 13:38:05 doco1 dovecot: doveadm: Error: dsync-remote(user1): Error: Mailbox INBOX: Remote didn't send mail GUID=caec8e2a84650a5181070000960042f4 (UID=136) Jan 31 13:38:05 doco1 dovecot: doveadm: Error: dsync-remote(user1): Error: Mailbox INBOX: Remote didn't send mail GUID=cbec8e2a84650a5181070000960042f4 (UID=135) Jan 31 13:38:05 doco1 dovecot: dsync-local(user1): Error: Mailbox INBOX: Remote didn't send mail GUID=caec8e2a84650a5181070000960042f4 (UID=148) Jan 31 13:38:05 doco1 dovecot: dsync-local(user1): Error: Mailbox INBOX: Remote didn't send mail GUID=caec8e2a84650a5181070000960042f4 (UID=156) Jan 31 13:38:05 doco1 dovecot: dsync-local(user1): Error: Mailbox INBOX: Remote didn't send mail GUID=cbec8e2a84650a5181070000960042f4 (UID=147) [...]

Server2: Jan 31 13:38:03 doco2 dovecot: dsync-local(user1): Error: Mailbox INBOX: Remote didn't send mail GUID=caec8e2a84650a5181070000960042f4 (UID=80) Jan 31 13:38:03 doco2 dovecot: dsync-local(user1): Error: Mailbox INBOX: Remote didn't send mail GUID=cbec8e2a84650a5181070000960042f4 (UID=79) Jan 31 13:38:04 doco2 dovecot: doveadm: Error: dsync-remote(user1): Error: Mailbox INBOX: Remote didn't send mail GUID=d0ec8e2a84650a5181070000960042f4 (UID=81) Jan 31 13:38:05 doco2 dovecot: doveadm: Error: dsync-remote(user1): Error: Mailbox INBOX: Remote didn't send mail GUID=d0ec8e2a84650a5181070000960042f4 (UID=119) Jan 31 13:38:05 doco2 dovecot: doveadm: Error: dsync-remote(user1): Error: Mailbox INBOX: Remote didn't send mail GUID=d0ec8e2a84650a5181070000960042f4 (UID=128) Jan 31 13:38:05 doco2 dovecot: doveadm: Error: dsync-remote(user1): Error: Mailbox INBOX: Remote didn't send mail GUID=d0ec8e2a84650a5181070000960042f4 (UID=130) Jan 31 13:38:05 doco2 dovecot: doveadm: Error: dsync-remote(user1): Error: Mailbox INBOX: Remote didn't send mail GUID=d0ec8e2a84650a5181070000960042f4 (UID=112) Jan 31 13:38:05 doco2 dovecot: doveadm: Error: dsync-remote(user1): Error: Mailbox INBOX: Remote didn't send mail GUID=d3ec8e2a84650a5181070000960042f4 (UID=133) Jan 31 13:38:05 doco2 dovecot: doveadm: Error: dsync-remote(user1): Error: Mailbox INBOX: Remote didn't send mail GUID=d2ec8e2a84650a5181070000960042f4 (UID=131) Jan 31 13:38:05 doco2 dovecot: doveadm: Error: dsync-remote(user1): Error: Mailbox INBOX: Remote didn't send mail GUID=d1ec8e2a84650a5181070000960042f4 (UID=132) Jan 31 13:38:06 doco2 dovecot: dsync-local(user1): Error: Mailbox INBOX: Remote didn't send mail GUID=caec8e2a84650a5181070000960042f4 (UID=136) Jan 31 13:38:06 doco2 dovecot: dsync-local(user1): Error: Mailbox INBOX: Remote didn't send mail GUID=cbec8e2a84650a5181070000960042f4 (UID=135) [...]

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I tried with mdbox now.. same problem, although I don't see "Expunged message reappeared" anymore , but still tons of these:

Server1: Jan 31 13:38:05 doco1 dovecot: doveadm: Error: dsync-remote(user1): Error: Mailbox INBOX: Remote didn't send mail GUID=caec8e2a84650a5181070000960042f4 (UID=136)

But there's no duplication now and it gets fixed eventually, right?

there's still duplication and it doesn't seem to get fixed (I have to kill dovecot eventually to make sure my disk doesn't get filled)

And you can easily reproduce this by simply copying 100 mails from one folder to another? I'll see if I can reproduce.

yes. these are the steps to reproduce:

start with a empty /mailstore on both server1 and server2 (configuration in dovecot-sql.conf: SELECT '/mailstore/%u' as home, 'mdbox:/mailstore/%u/mdbox' as mail, 500 as uid, 500 as gid FROM users WHERE username = '%u' )

start dovecot on server1 result: obviously, dovecot complains that the initial sync can't start since server2 is not yet running, but starts ok

start dovecot on server2 result: all ok, no errors

connect thunderbird to account user1 on server1 result: login ok, mdbox visible on disk, 0 messages

in thunderbird copy exactly 100 messages from a spambox to user1's inbox on server1 result: maillog errors start popping up after a few seconds, message count in thunderbird goes way beyond 100

wait about 30 sec result:

10'000 messages in both boxes

Let me know if you need more info. And thanks for looking into this!

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On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:24:06 +0200 Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi> wrote:

On 31.1.2013, at 15.10, Oli Schacher <dovecot@lists.wgwh.ch> wrote:

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connect thunderbird to account user1 on server1 result: login ok, mdbox visible on disk, 0 messages

in thunderbird copy exactly 100 messages from a spambox to user1's inbox on server1

spambox not being in server1? So not IMAP COPY command, but APPEND?

yes APPEND, the spambox where I got the messages from is on a completely different server. sorry for not mentioning that earlier.

On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:09:20 +0200 Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi> wrote:

See if http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.2/rev/1d88f01ba2aa helps?

I updated to the latest hg, including the "remote cmd exit wait" update.

It looks better now, but I still manage to break things :-)

############# test 1: append 1000 messages messages with thunderbird, mdbox -> ok, no more errors, sync ok

############# test 2: append only 100 messages, but use maildir again instead of mdbox. still produces errors and starts duplicating, even saw an assertion error this time, but I can't reproduce it always

Jan 31 16:57:34 doco1 dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<user1>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.23.130, lip=192.168.23.61, mpid=2684, session=<4tper5fU8gDAqBeC> Jan 31 16:57:35 doco1 dovecot: doveadm: Error: dsync-remote(user1): Panic: file dsync-mailbox-tree-fill.c: line 72 (dsync_mailbox_tree_add): assertion failed: (status.uidvalidity != 0) Jan 31 16:57:35 doco1 dovecot: doveadm: Error: dsync-remote(user1): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x5ce8a) [0x7f65aa39de8a] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(default_fatal_handler+0x32)
[0x7f65aa39df72] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x1f55a) [0x7f65aa36055a] -> /usr/bin/doveadm(dsync_mailbox_tree_fill+0x4cf) [0x42f5cf] -> /usr/bin/doveadm(dsync_brain_mailbox_trees_init+0x180) [0x428630] -> /usr/bin/doveadm(dsync_brain_run+0x393) [0x426033] -> /usr/bin/doveadm() [0x426331] -> /usr/bin/doveadm() [0x434780] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x36) [0x7f65aa3aca16] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0xa7)
[0x7f65aa3adaa7] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x28)
[0x7f65aa3ac9b8] -> /usr/bin/doveadm() [0x424114] -> /usr/bin/doveadm() [0x40fe4f] -> /usr/bin/doveadm() [0x41067d] -> /usr/bin/doveadm(doveadm_mail_try_run+0x141)
[0x410ba1] -> /usr/bin/doveadm(main+0x3f1) [0x417ba1] -> /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x7f65a9fcccdd] -> /usr/bin/doveadm() [0x40f839]
Jan 31 16:57:35 doco1 dovecot: dsync-local(user1): Error: read(vmail@192.168.23.62) failed: EOF Jan 31 16:57:35 doco1 dovecot: dsync-local(user1): Error: Remote command returned error 255 Jan 31 16:58:06 doco1 dovecot: dsync-local(user1): Error: Recent flags state corrupted for mailbox INBOX Jan 31 16:58:06 doco1 dovecot: doveadm(user1): Warning: /mailstore/user1/maildir/dovecot-uidlist: Duplicate file entry at line 59: 1359647883.M823994P2684.doco1,S=2483,W=2562 (uid 18 -> 58) Jan 31 16:58:06 doco1 dovecot: doveadm(user1): Warning: /mailstore/user1/maildir/dovecot-uidlist: Duplicate file entry at line 60: 1359647883.M382644P2684.doco1,S=2533,W=2610 (uid 15 -> 59) [...]

############# test 3: mdbox again, append 1000 messages with claws mail, but have thunderbird connected at the same time to both accounts while doing so. this leads to the same problem as before (duplication, errors). I guess thunderbird wants to set a seen flag and modifying the mailbox while it's being synced is probably is a bad idea, but you never know what users are going to do :-)

Jan 31 17:13:11 doco1 dovecot: dsync-local(user1): Error: Mailbox INBOX: Remote didn't send mail GUID=33dabe0f11980a51200c0000960042f4 (UID=104) Jan 31 17:13:11 doco1 dovecot: dsync-local(user1): Error: Mailbox INBOX: Remote didn't send mail GUID=33dabe0f11980a51200c0000960042f4 (UID=114) Jan 31 17:13:11 doco1 dovecot: dsync-local(user1): Error: Mailbox INBOX: Remote didn't send mail GUID=33dabe0f11980a51200c0000960042f4 (UID=118) Jan 31 17:13:11 doco1 dovecot: dsync-local(user1): Error: Mailbox INBOX: Remote didn't send mail GUID=33dabe0f11980a51200c0000960042f4 (UID=123)

Let me know if you need more info/tests.

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On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:49:18 +0200 Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi> wrote:

http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.2/rev/86629f621fe4 should fix this crash.

The duplication happens because maildir somehow messes up itself. I guess I should look into it.

thanks, much appreciated!

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test 3: mdbox again, append 1000 messages with claws mail, but have thunderbird connected at the same time to both accounts while doing so. this leads to the same problem as before (duplication, errors). I guess thunderbird wants to set a seen flag and modifying the mailbox while it's being synced is probably is a bad idea, but you never know what users are going to do :-)

Jan 31 17:13:11 doco1 dovecot: dsync-local(user1): Error: Mailbox INBOX: Remote didn't send mail GUID=33dabe0f11980a51200c0000960042f4 (UID=104)

All of the clients and changes are done only to one side, not to both sides?

In my previous tests I had thunderbird connected to both servers, without actually doing anything, just watching the mailbox unread counter go up. It could be it tried to update both mailboxes. I don't know what thunderbird does in the background when you're not actually clicking on a mailbox. The errors were visible in both maillogs (server1 and server2).

But I can reproduce the problem by connecting only to server1, in that case, the errors show up in server1's log only:

the current test scenario looks like:

• both servers empty mail store, configuration set to mdbox
• start server 1
• start server 2
• connect claws mail to server1
• connect thunderbird to server1 too
• in claws mail copy a few hundred mails from a remote box to server1
• I can see the unread counter go up in thunderbird
• "Remote didn't send mail" errors start popping up, but only in server1's maillog this time
• mails are duplicated

in one testrun I also saw the assert failure below, but again, I can't reproduce this one :

Jan 31 18:10:11 doco1 dovecot: doveadm: Error: dsync-remote(user1): Panic: file dsync-mailbox-import.c: line 1080 (dsync_mailbox_import_change): assertion failed: (change->type == DSYNC_MAIL_CHANGE_TYPE_SAVE) Jan 31 18:10:11 doco1 dovecot: doveadm: Error: dsync-remote(user1): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x5ce8a) [0x7f0ac3602e8a] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(default_fatal_handler+0x32) [0x7f0ac3602f72] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x1f55a) [0x7f0ac35c555a] -> /usr/bin/doveadm(dsync_mailbox_import_change+0x501) [0x42c631] -> /usr/bin/doveadm(dsync_brain_sync_mails+0x3a2) [0x4290a2] -> /usr/bin/doveadm(dsync_brain_run+0x169) [0x425e09] -> /usr/bin/doveadm() [0x426360] -> /usr/bin/doveadm() [0x434780] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x36) [0x7f0ac3611a16] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0xa7) [0x7f0ac3612aa7] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x28) [0x7f0ac36119b8] -> /usr/bin/doveadm() [0x424114] -> /usr/bin/doveadm() [0x40fe4f] -> /usr/bin/doveadm() [0x41067d] -> /usr/bin/doveadm(doveadm_mail_try_run+0x141) [0x410ba1] -> /usr/bin/doveadm(main+0x3f1) [0x417ba1] -> /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x7f0ac3231cdd] -> /usr/bin/doveadm() [0x40f839]

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On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 21:51 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:

On 31.1.2013, at 19.41, Oli Schacher <dovecot@lists.wgwh.ch> wrote:

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Jan 31 17:13:11 doco1 dovecot: dsync-local(user1): Error: Mailbox INBOX: Remote didn't send mail GUID=33dabe0f11980a51200c0000960042f4 (UID=104)

I guess there's some bug that causes this to happen in some situations.. But the reason for mail duplication should be fixed by: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.2/rev/138f1c76c0ec

Except that shouldn't have been necessary. doveadm-server returns success before it has finished running dsync. Not sure why, need to debug it further.

Fixed with a bit of a kludge: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.2/rev/e9e6a95cea21

[Sorry Oli for my previous mail to your address, only. Resent here]

Oli Schacher <dovecot@lists.wgwh.ch> wrote:

There still seems to be a problem when changes to both mailboxes at the same time are involved

I can confirm your observation, although triggered by a different test scenario, similar to the one I did use with 2.1 replicator before (http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2012-March/064354.html).

This is v2.2.beta1 (78bdcb6642c7) with freshly created mailboxes "test" at both servers "mx1" and "mx2", and replicator uses ssh for remote access. Both servers run a recent postfix, use lmtp for local delivery, and "test" is a virtual user.

Test script to produce local testmails of equal size at mx1: | #!/bin/csh | set INDEX = 101 | set endINDEX = 200 | while ( $INDEX <= $endINDEX ) | echo $INDEX | echo "test" | mail -s $INDEX test@mx1 | if ( $INDEX % 1000 == 0 ) then | sleep 1 | endif | @ INDEX = $INDEX + 1 |end |exit 0

Test script to produce testmails of equal size at mx2: | #!/bin/csh | set INDEX = 1101 | set endINDEX = 1200 | while ( $INDEX <= $endINDEX ) | echo $INDEX | echo "test" | mail -s $INDEX test@mx2 | if ( $INDEX % 1000 == 0 ) then | sleep 1 | endif | @ INDEX = $INDEX + 1 |end |exit 0

All tests are run with vanilla mailboxes, after restarting dovecot, and without imap connections by MUA:

1. Simultaneous mailbomb approach: run both scripts simultaneously, and you'll end up with numerous duplicates in mailboxes "test". Very often you'll find multiples.

2. Mailbomb approach: run one script at one server only, and all mails will become perfectly well synchronised.

3. Mofify both scripts to "( $INDEX % 1 == 0 )" to add a second waiting between every mail injection, and run them simultaneously at both servers, and you'll end up with significantly less duplicates and no more multiples.

Feb 1 07:12:52 doco1 dovecot: dsync-local(user1): Error: Mailbox INBOX: Remote didn't send mail GUID=7a30ff22af5b0b510f0c0000960042f4 (UID=211)

Feb 1 07:12:54 doco2 dovecot: dsync-local(user1): Error: Importing mailbox INBOX failed

Feb 1 07:13:24 doco2 dovecot: dsync-local(user1): Error: Remote command process isn't dying, killing it

I do see those error messages as well, and in addition numerous of those:

| dovecot: dsync-local(test): Error: Mailbox INBOX: Unexpected GUID mismatch for UID=7153: 82c5df0a4ffa0b5141e300006a0d5a02 != 29cc9f284ffa0b5141c2000036abecbd

| doveadm: Error: dsync-remote(test): Error: Mailbox INBOX: Unexpected GUID mismatch for UID=7153: 82c5df0a4ffa0b5141e300006a0d5a02 != 29cc9f284ffa0b5141c2000036abecbd

| dovecot: lmtp(49752, test): Error: Corrupted index cache file /.../test/mailboxes/INBOX/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index.cache: File too small

| Feb 1 18:35:16 <mail.err> mx1 dovecot: imap(test) BXeiKq3UBgBd3DLy: Error: Mailbox INBOX: Corrupted index, uidvalidity=0 | Feb 1 18:35:16 <mail.warn> mx1 dovecot: imap(test) BXeiKq3UBgBd3DLy: Warning: fscking index file /.../test/storage/dovecot.map.index | Feb 1 18:35:16 <mail.err> mx1 dovecot: imap(test) BXeiKq3UBgBd3DLy: Error: Mailbox INBOX: Corrupted index, uidvalidity=0 | Feb 1 18:35:16 <mail.err> mx1 dovecot: imap(test) BXeiKq3UBgBd3DLy: Error: mdbox /.../test/mailboxes/INBOX/dbox-Mails: Storage keeps breaking | Feb 1 18:35:16 <mail.err> mx1 dovecot: imap(test) BXeiKq3UBgBd3DLy: Error: Mailbox INBOX: Corrupted index, uidvalidity=0 | Feb 1 18:35:16 <mail.warn> mx1 dovecot: imap(test) BXeiKq3UBgBd3DLy: Warning: fscking index file /.../test/storage/dovecot.map.index | Feb 1 18:35:16 <mail.warn> mx1 dovecot: imap(test) BXeiKq3UBgBd3DLy: Warning: mdbox /.../test/storage: rebuilding indexes | Feb 1 18:35:17 <mail.warn> mx1 dovecot: imap(test) BXeiKq3UBgBd3DLy: Warning: fscking index file /.../test/storage/dovecot.map.index | Feb 1 18:35:17 <mail.warn> mx1 dovecot: imap(test) BXeiKq3UBgBd3DLy: Warning: fscking index file /.../test/storage/dovecot.map.index | Feb 1 18:35:17 <mail.warn> mx1 dovecot: imap(test) BXeiKq3UBgBd3DLy: Warning: mdbox /.../test/storage: rebuilding indexes | Feb 1 18:35:17 <mail.warn> mx1 dovecot: imap(test) BXeiKq3UBgBd3DLy: Warning: fscking index file /.../test/storage/dovecot.map.index | Feb 1 18:35:17 <mail.warn> mx1 dovecot: imap(test) BXeiKq3UBgBd3DLy: Warning: fscking index file /.../test/storage/dovecot.map.index | Feb 1 18:35:17 <mail.warn> mx1 dovecot: imap(test) BXeiKq3UBgBd3DLy: Warning: mdbox /.../test/storage: rebuilding indexes | Feb 1 18:35:18 <mail.warn> mx1 dovecot: imap(test) BXeiKq3UBgBd3DLy: Warning: fscking index file /.../test/storage/dovecot.map.index | Feb 1 18:35:18 <mail.warn> mx1 dovecot: imap(test) BXeiKq3UBgBd3DLy: Warning: fscking index file /.../test/storage/dovecot.map.index | Feb 1 18:35:18 <mail.warn> mx1 dovecot: imap(test) BXeiKq3UBgBd3DLy: Warning: mdbox /.../test/storage: rebuilding indexes | Feb 1 18:35:18 <mail.warn> mx1 dovecot: imap(test) BXeiKq3UBgBd3DLy: Warning: fscking index file /.../test/storage/dovecot.map.index | Feb 1 18:35:27 <mail.warn> mx1 dovecot: imap(test) BXeiKq3UBgBd3DLy: Warning: fscking index file /.../test/storage/dovecot.map.index | Feb 1 18:35:27 <mail.warn> mx1 dovecot: imap(test) BXeiKq3UBgBd3DLy: Warning: mdbox /.../test/storage: rebuilding indexes | Feb 1 18:35:27 <mail.warn> mx1 dovecot: imap(test) BXeiKq3UBgBd3DLy: Warning: fscking index file /.../test/storage/dovecot.map.index | Feb 1 18:35:27 <mail.info> mx1 dovecot: imap(test) BXeiKq3UBgBd3DLy: Disconnected: Logged out in=425 out=1100

JFYI, and regards, Michael

Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi> wrote:

I did a bunch of dsync fixes today in hg. With the new locking behavior (and other fixes) you shouldn't be able to break it anymore.

Sorry to say, but I am still able to break replicator with v2.2.beta1 (35194cf0693e) under the conditions outlined below.

On 2013-02-01 Michael Grimm wrote:

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This is v2.2.beta1 (78bdcb6642c7) with freshly created mailboxes "test" at both servers "mx1" and "mx2", and replicator uses ssh for remote access. Both servers run a recent postfix, use lmtp for local delivery, and "test" is a virtual user.

I might add that both servers run inside FreeBSD jails (if that might make the difference to your test setup.

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All tests are run with vanilla mailboxes, after restarting dovecot, and without imap connections by MUA:

This time I did even restart both service jails before every test. And, I did use both Mail.app and roundcube as MUA to check the results (if Mail.app might have screwed INBOX ...)

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1. Simultaneous mailbomb approach: run both scripts simultaneously, and you'll end up with numerous duplicates in mailboxes "test". Very often you'll find multiples.

Still a lot of duplicates and multiples. Those numbers are not reproducable, 240 (best case) up to 340 (worst case) instead of 200 messages (after 10 tests).

Here is one logfile example of a triplicated mail injected at mx1:

logfile at mx1: | Feb 16 19:03:12 <mail.info> mx1 postfix/pickup[33958]: 3Z7fMh1PYMz5Ng: uid=0 from=<root> | Feb 16 19:03:12 <mail.info> mx1 postfix/cleanup[34320]: 3Z7fMh1PYMz5Ng: message-id=<3Z7fMh1PYMz5Ng@test.mx1.invalid> | Feb 16 19:03:12 <mail.info> mx1 postfix/qmgr[33959]: 3Z7fMh1PYMz5Ng: from=<root@mx1.invalid>, size=310, nrcpt=1 (queue active) | Feb 16 19:03:12 <mail.info> mx1 dovecot: lmtp(34456, test): copy from : box=INBOX, uid=12, msgid=<3Z7fMh1PYMz5Ng@test.mx1.invalid>, size=544, from=root@mx1.invalid (admin), flags=() | Feb 16 19:03:12 <mail.info> mx1 dovecot: lmtp(34456, test): nVlIDeDJH1GYhgAAag1aAg: sieve: msgid=<3Z7fMh1PYMz5Ng@test.mx1.invalid>: stored mail into mailbox 'INBOX' | Feb 16 19:03:12 <mail.info> mx1 postfix/lmtp[34453]: 3Z7fMh1PYMz5Ng: to=<test@mx1.invalid>, orig_to=<tttttt@mx1.invalid>, relay=test.mx1.invalid[private/dovecot-lmtp], delay=0.29, delays=0.08/0/0/0.21, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 <test@mx1.invalid> nVlIDeDJH1GYhgAAag1aAg Saved) | Feb 16 19:03:12 <mail.info> mx1 postfix/qmgr[33959]: 3Z7fMh1PYMz5Ng: removed | Feb 16 19:03:13 <mail.info> mx1 dovecot: dsync-local(test): copy from INBOX: box=INBOX, uid=42, msgid=<3Z7fMh1PYMz5Ng@test.mx1.invalid>, size=544, from=root@mx1.invalid (admin), flags=() | Feb 16 19:03:13 <mail.info> mx1 dovecot: dsync-local(test): expunge: box=INBOX, uid=12, msgid=<3Z7fMh1PYMz5Ng@test.mx1.invalid>, size=544, from=root@mx1.invalid (admin), flags=(\Recent) | Feb 16 19:03:16 <mail.info> mx1 dovecot: dsync-local(test): copy from INBOX: box=INBOX, uid=164, msgid=<3Z7fMh1PYMz5Ng@test.mx1.invalid>, size=544, from=root@mx1.invalid (admin), flags=() | Feb 16 19:03:16 <mail.info> mx1 dovecot: dsync-local(test): copy from INBOX: box=INBOX, uid=263, msgid=<3Z7fMh1PYMz5Ng@test.mx1.invalid>, size=544, from=root@mx1.invalid (admin), flags=() | Feb 16 19:03:16 <mail.info> mx1 dovecot: dsync-local(test): expunge: box=INBOX, uid=118, msgid=<3Z7fMh1PYMz5Ng@test.mx1.invalid>, size=544, from=root@mx1.invalid (admin), flags=(\Recent) | Feb 16 19:03:16 <mail.info> mx1 dovecot: dsync-local(test): expunge: box=INBOX, uid=42, msgid=<3Z7fMh1PYMz5Ng@test.mx1.invalid>, size=544, from=root@mx1.invalid (admin), flags=(\Recent)

after reading those three messages at mx1: | Feb 16 19:04:22 <mail.info> mx1 dovecot: imap(test) hQjfUNvVPwBd3Cqw: flag_change: box=INBOX, uid=372, msgid=<3Z7fMh1PYMz5Ng@test.mx1.invalid>, size=544, from=root@mx1.invalid (admin), flags=(\Seen \Recent) | Feb 16 19:05:40 <mail.info> mx1 dovecot: imap(test) hQjfUNvVPwBd3Cqw: flag_change: box=INBOX, uid=263, msgid=<3Z7fMh1PYMz5Ng@test.mx1.invalid>, size=544, from=root@mx1.invalid (admin), flags=(\Seen \Recent) | Feb 16 19:05:41 <mail.info> mx1 dovecot: imap(test) hQjfUNvVPwBd3Cqw: flag_change: box=INBOX, uid=164, msgid=<3Z7fMh1PYMz5Ng@test.mx1.invalid>, size=544, from=root@mx1.invalid (admin), flags=(\Seen \Recent)

logfile at mx2: | Feb 16 19:03:13 <mail.info> mx2 dovecot: dsync-local(test): save: box=INBOX, uid=50, msgid=<3Z7fMh1PYMz5Ng@test.mx1.invalid>, size=544, from=root@mx1.invalid (admin), flags=() | Feb 16 19:03:17 <mail.info> mx2 dovecot: dsync-local(test): copy from INBOX: box=INBOX, uid=372, msgid=<3Z7fMh1PYMz5Ng@test.mx1.invalid>, size=544, from=root@mx1.invalid (admin), flags=()

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2. Mailbomb approach: run one script at one server only, and all mails will become perfectly well synchronised.

Same results here.

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3. Modify both scripts to "( $INDEX % 1 == 0 )" to add a second waiting between every mail injection, and run them simultaneously at both servers, and you'll end up with significantly less duplicates and no more multiples.

Same results here.

Good: I cannot find any "Error:" entries in both logfiles any longer.

Regards, Michael

On 16.02.2013, at 20:09, Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi> wrote:

On 16.2.2013, at 20.26, Michael Grimm <trashcan@odo.in-berlin.de> wrote:

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Sorry to say, but I am still able to break replicator with v2.2.beta1 (35194cf0693e) under the conditions outlined below.

I wonder if locking is working correctly in your setup. Your users have home directories, right?

Yes, I do have homedirs, ...

Dovecot should be creating .dovecot-sync.lock files in there during the sync.

... and I double-checked that a .dovecot-sync.lock lockfile is being created during replication, and yes, it is.

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I might add that both servers run inside FreeBSD jails (if that might make the difference to your test setup.

Inside jail Dovecot sees two different hostnames (same as "hostname" command)?

Hmm. Both jails run at distinct servers. ssh replication uses different domains, though. But, both jails are named identically "test", and both jails resolve to identical hostnames "test" if using "hostname". But, a "hostname -f" is lacking to return "test.mx1.invalid" and "test.mx2.invalid", respectively (although a "nslookup test" does). Hmm, do you think I should need to provide different hostnames in both jails?

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Good: I cannot find any "Error:" entries in both logfiles any longer.

What about Warning?

I do see only those few messages at both servers:

| dovecot: doveadm(test): Warning: fscking index file /.../test/storage/dovecot.map.index | dovecot: doveadm(test): Warning: fscking index file /.../test/storage/dovecot.map.index | dovecot: doveadm(test): Warning: mdbox /.../test/storage: rebuilding indexes

Please let me know what you want me to test next.

I really to appreciate your efforts and with kind regards, Michael

On 17.2.2013, at 7.06, Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi> wrote:

On 17.2.2013, at 0.12, Michael Grimm <trashcan@odo.in-berlin.de> wrote:

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Hmm. Both jails run at distinct servers. ssh replication uses different domains, though. But, both jails are named identically "test", and both jails resolve to identical hostnames "test" if using "hostname". But, a "hostname -f" is lacking to return "test.mx1.invalid" and "test.mx2.invalid", respectively (although a "nslookup test" does). Hmm, do you think I should need to provide different hostnames in both jails?

That's the problem most likely. I'd guess Dovecot sees both servers as having "test" as the hostname and each server thinks it's the one that should be doing the locking and not the other.

See if this helps: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.2/rev/e7aabd79c9d5

Although even if it does, other parts of Dovecot still use only the hostname part to guarantee global uniqueness of things. So better to have unique hostnames.

On Sun, 2013-02-17 at 10:44 +0100, Michael Grimm wrote:

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Although even if it does, other parts of Dovecot still use only the hostname part to guarantee global uniqueness of things. So better to have unique hostnames.

What parts of Dovecot would be involved? I'm curious because my production mailservers use identical hostnames in their jails ever since running Dovecot (starting 1.x).

Mainly that maildir filenames are used as GUIDs. If two have the same name, they are assumed to be identical. That's why the maildir filenames include the hostname in them, to make sure that the GUID is different even if two mails happen to be delivered at exactly the same time with the same PID and same size to two different servers. So pretty unlikely, but better to be safe. :)

There may be some other features that require unique hostnames in future. Anything where multiple Dovecot servers need to communicate between each others. If some day there is such generic communication between Dovecot servers I'm planning on enforcing this requirement.

On 17.2.2013, at 12.19, Michael Grimm <trashcan@odo.in-berlin.de> wrote:

On 17.02.2013, at 11:08, Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi> wrote:

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On Sun, 2013-02-17 at 10:44 +0100, Michael Grimm wrote:

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Although even if it does, other parts of Dovecot still use only the hostname part to guarantee global uniqueness of things. So better to have unique hostnames.

What parts of Dovecot would be involved? I'm curious because my production mailservers use identical hostnames in their jails ever since running Dovecot (starting 1.x).

Mainly that maildir filenames are used as GUIDs. If two have the same name, they are assumed to be identical. That's why the maildir filenames include the hostname in them, to make sure that the GUID is different even if two mails happen to be delivered at exactly the same time with the same PID and same size to two different servers. So pretty unlikely, but better to be safe. :)

Ok, that won't hit me for the time being because I am using mdbox.

It's basically the same with mdbox, except instead of using actual hostname it's using a 32bit hash of it. (So yeah, ideally there should be checks for detecting hostname hash collisions..)

On 18.02.2013, at 07:49, Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi> wrote:

On Sun, 2013-02-17 at 12:30 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:

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(So yeah, ideally there should be checks for detecting hostname hash collisions..)

Added to v2.2 hg:

% doveconf -H dovecot%2d No duplicate host hashes in dovecot0 .. dovecot99

With "doveconf -H dovecot%9d" I do end in tons of reported collisions like ... | doveconf: Error: Duplicate host hashes: dovecot1368344 and dovecot2055005 | doveconf: Error: Duplicate host hashes: dovecot2042008 and dovecot2056918 | doveconf: Error: Duplicate host hashes: dovecot1844965 and dovecot2058312

(No wonder, I am running 2.1 replicator with identical local hostnames for some time now.)

... and ending with: | Killed

doveconf -H without the template it attempts to detect it from the current hostname.

mail> doveconf -H doveconf: Fatal: Hostname 'xxx.yyy.tld' has no digits, can't verify

JFTR and regards, Michael

On 2013-02-18 10:39 PM, Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi> wrote:

On 18.2.2013, at 23.50, Michael Grimm <trashcan@odo.in-berlin.de> wrote:

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With "doveconf -H dovecot%9d" I do end in tons of reported collisions like ... | doveconf: Error: Duplicate host hashes: dovecot1368344 and dovecot2055005 | doveconf: Error: Duplicate host hashes: dovecot2042008 and dovecot2056918 | doveconf: Error: Duplicate host hashes: dovecot1844965 and dovecot2058312 Sure there are going to be hash collisions at some point, but I highly doubt you're going to create a million server Dovecot cluster. :)

I've been following this thread with interest (or mostly out of curiosity, as I will have no need for running multiple machines, except possibly to run one secondary machine as a 'hot spare', but here I'm confused (and my ignorance is apparently showing)...

How are any of the above 'collisions? The hashes are different.

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Am 17.02.2013 11:08, schrieb Timo Sirainen:

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What parts of Dovecot would be involved? I'm curious because my production mailservers use identical hostnames in their jails ever since running Dovecot (starting 1.x).

Mainly that maildir filenames are used as GUIDs. If two have the same name, they are assumed to be identical. That's why the maildir filenames include the hostname in them, to make sure that the GUID is different even if two mails happen to be delivered at exactly the same time with the same PID and same size to two different servers. So pretty unlikely, but better to be safe. :)

There may be some other features that require unique hostnames in future. Anything where multiple Dovecot servers need to communicate between each others. If some day there is such generic communication between Dovecot servers I'm planning on enforcing this requirement.

Postfix is enforcing this since forever "Greeted me with my own hostname"

hostnames inside a network should always be unique

Am 17.02.2013 21:04, schrieb Michael Grimm:

On 17.02.2013, at 11:08, Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi> wrote:

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There may be some other features that require unique hostnames in future. Anything where multiple Dovecot servers need to communicate between each others.

I'd like to come back to that issue in order to understand your statement cited below.

First of all: whenever you referred to "hostname" in this thread you have been using it as a synonym for the local part [1] of a FQDN, right?

I have both servers of mine configured to use identical local parts ("test") but different FQDN (aka "test.domainA.tldA" and "test.domainB.tldB"). Your fix has been to replace "my_hostname" by "my_hostdomain()", thus using "test.domainA.tldA" and "test.domainB.tldB" instead of "test", right?

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If some day there is such generic communication between Dovecot servers I'm planning on enforcing this requirement.

Given that all my interpretations of your statements are correct I do have difficulties in understanding why a "generic communication between Dovecot servers" should be limited to enforcing different local parts of all Dovecot servers implied instead of different FQDN? That would make much more sense regarding uniqueness in hostnames, IMHO. Two servers like "dovecot.forget-about.it" and "dovecot.you-name.it" should be able to communicate generically, again: IMHO.

the better design would be if doveot generates some UUID at the first startup in a /etc/dovecot/uuid.conf if the file does not exist becasue it would make hostnames meaningless at all AND give you the option if you are knowing what you are doing to replace a machine with a newer one by rsync datadirs and the whole /etc/dovecot/

On 17.2.2013, at 22.04, Michael Grimm <trashcan@odo.in-berlin.de> wrote:

On 17.02.2013, at 11:08, Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi> wrote:

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There may be some other features that require unique hostnames in future. Anything where multiple Dovecot servers need to communicate between each others.

I'd like to come back to that issue in order to understand your statement cited below.

First of all: whenever you referred to "hostname" in this thread you have been using it as a synonym for the local part [1] of a FQDN, right?

I mean what gethostname() function returns, which is what "hostname" command usually also returns. And yes, I think it's the local part always.

I have both servers of mine configured to use identical local parts ("test") but different FQDN (aka "test.domainA.tldA" and "test.domainB.tldB"). Your fix has been to replace "my_hostname" by "my_hostdomain()", thus using "test.domainA.tldA" and "test.domainB.tldB" instead of "test", right?

Yes.

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If some day there is such generic communication between Dovecot servers I'm planning on enforcing this requirement.

Given that all my interpretations of your statements are correct I do have difficulties in understanding why a "generic communication between Dovecot servers" should be limited to enforcing different local parts of all Dovecot servers implied instead of different FQDN? That would make much more sense regarding uniqueness in hostnames, IMHO. Two servers like "dovecot.forget-about.it" and "dovecot.you-name.it" should be able to communicate generically, again: IMHO.

I think systems named those would belong to different clusters and wouldn't need to communicate with each others.

I looked through the code. The hostname (without domain) are currently used for:

• maildir filenames
• temporary filenames
• authentication challenge strings in some auth mechanisms
• logging

So I think the hostname uniqueness matters mainly when using a shared filesystem (e.g. NFS).

BTW: I had had defined "hostname=" in dovecot.conf identically using completely different *but* identical FQDNs "mail.my-domain.tld" because of:

| conf.d/15-lda.conf:

| # Hostname to use in various parts of sent mails, eg. in Message-Id. | # Default is the system's real hostname. | #hostname =

At least my_hostdomain() doesn't care about that setting, right?

Right. I updated the comment a bit: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.2/rev/6a67a1440e15

lda_hostname would have been a better name for the settings.

On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 17:20:22 +0200 Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi> wrote:

I did a bunch of dsync fixes today in hg. With the new locking behavior (and other fixes) you shouldn't be able to break it anymore.

Thanks for the fixes, Timo!

I can confirm I'm no longer able to break anything with the tests I've mentioned so far(mass appending, simultaneous append and delete on both mailboxes), no more errors, no more dupes.

I can also confirm the doveadm-server crash I reported in http://dovecot.markmail.org/thread/fb3qjnsdhtcpirg3 is now gone.

There seems to be an issue left when expunging a large amount of messages from the Trash. I managed to get it twice so far by expunging ~3k messages. I'll try to create a reproducible test script for this scenario. I can currently only provide my "clicking around" log output. Version is current hg, e63d1cf19ec7.

First time it happened: Feb 16 18:49:48 doco2 dovecot: imap(user1): Warning: Maildir /mailstore/user1/maildir/.Trash: Expunged message reappeared, giving a new UID (old uid=1221, file=1361035457.M728795P6220.doco1,S=2476,W=2555:2,Sa) Feb 16 18:49:48 doco2 dovecot: imap(user1): Warning: Maildir /mailstore/user1/maildir/.Trash: Expunged message reappeared, giving a new UID (old uid=1222, file=1361035458.M501466P6220.doco1,S=2477,W=2556:2,Sa) Feb 16 18:49:48 doco2 dovecot: imap(user1): Warning: Maildir /mailstore/user1/maildir/.Trash: Expunged message reappeared, giving a new UID (old uid=1223, file=1361035458.M988177P6220.doco1,S=2520,W=2599:2,Sa) Feb 16 18:49:48 doco2 dovecot: imap(user1): Warning: Maildir /mailstore/user1/maildir/.Trash: Expunged message reappeared, giving a new UID (old uid=1224, file=1361035459.M254031P6220.doco1,S=2483,W=2562:2,Sa) Feb 16 18:49:49 doco2 dovecot: imap(user1): Warning: Maildir /mailstore/user1/maildir/.Trash: Expunged message reappeared, giving a new UID (old uid=1225, file=1361035459.M431911P6220.doco1,S=2490,W=2569:2,Sa) Feb 16 18:49:49 doco2 dovecot: imap(user1): Warning: Maildir /mailstore/user1/maildir/.Trash: Expunged message reappeared, giving a new UID (old uid=1226, file=1361035459.M959244P6220.doco1,S=2482,W=2561:2,Sa) Feb 16 18:50:14 doco2 dovecot: doveadm: Error: dsync-remote(user1): Error: Couldn't lock /mailstore/user1/.dovecot-sync.lock: Interrupted system call Feb 16 18:50:14 doco2 dovecot: doveadm: Error: dsync-remote(user1): Error: dsync(local): Received unexpected input S != H Feb 16 18:50:14 doco2 dovecot: dsync-local(user1): Error: read(vmail@192.168.23.61) failed: EOF Feb 16 18:50:14 doco2 dovecot: dsync-local(user1): Error: Remote command returned error 75 Feb 16 18:50:44 doco2 dovecot: doveadm: Error: dsync-remote(user1): Error: Couldn't lock /mailstore/user1/.dovecot-sync.lock: Interrupted system call Feb 16 18:50:44 doco2 dovecot: doveadm: Error: dsync-remote(user1): Error: dsync(local): Received unexpected input N != H Feb 16 18:50:44 doco2 dovecot: dsync-local(user1): Error: read(vmail@192.168.23.61) failed: EOF Feb 16 18:50:44 doco2 dovecot: dsync-local(user1): Error: Remote command returned error 75

2nd time: (no "reappeared" messages this time) Feb 16 19:08:13 doco2 dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<user1>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.23.130, lip=192.168.23.62, mpid=4794, session=<DZ8RYNvVyADAqBeC> Feb 16 19:08:44 doco2 dovecot: doveadm: Error: dsync-remote(user1): Error: Couldn't lock /mailstore/user1/.dovecot-sync.lock: Interrupted system call Feb 16 19:08:44 doco2 dovecot: doveadm: Error: dsync-remote(user1): Error: dsync(local): Received unexpected input S != H Feb 16 19:08:44 doco2 dovecot: dsync-local(user1): Error: read(vmail@192.168.23.61) failed: EOF Feb 16 19:08:44 doco2 dovecot: dsync-local(user1): Error: Remote command returned error 75

A while later on the other server: Feb 16 19:13:08 doco1 dovecot: doveadm: Error: dsync-remote(user1): Panic: file mail-transaction-log-view.c: line 72 (mail_transaction_log_view_set): assertion failed: (min_file_seq <= max_file_seq) Feb 16 19:13:08 doco1 dovecot: doveadm: Error: dsync-remote(user1): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x5dc2a) [0x7f305f325c2a] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(default_fatal_handler+0x32) [0x7f305f325d12] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x1f80a) [0x7f305f2e780a] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_transaction_log_view_set+0x580) [0x7f305f64e3f0] -> /usr/bin/doveadm() [0x43786b] -> /usr/bin/doveadm(dsync_transaction_log_scan_init+0x8c) [0x43791c] -> /usr/bin/doveadm(dsync_brain_sync_mailbox_open+0x5e) [0x42724e] -> /usr/bin/doveadm(dsync_brain_slave_recv_mailbox+0x123) [0x427c63] -> /usr/bin/doveadm(dsync_brain_run+0x178) [0x425ff8] -> /usr/bin/doveadm() [0x4265d1] -> /usr/bin/doveadm() [0x4357f0] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x36) [0x7f305f334bd6] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0xa7) [0x7f305f335c67] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x28) [0x7f305f334b78] -> /usr/bin/doveadm() [0x424294] -> /usr/bin/doveadm() [0x40ffaf] -> /usr/bin/doveadm() [0x4107dd] -> /usr/bin/doveadm(doveadm_mail_try_run+0x141) [0x410d01] -> /usr/bin/doveadm(main+0x3f1) [0x417d21] -> /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x7f305ef53cdd] -> /usr/bin/doveadm() [0x40f999] Feb 16 19:13:08 doco1 dovecot: dsync-local(user1): Error: read(vmail@192.168.23.62) failed: EOF Feb 16 19:13:08 doco1 dovecot: dsync-local(user1): Error: Remote command returned error 255

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On 02/17/2013 03:21 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:

Although there's still some mail duplication problem with maildir that doesn't log any errors about it. I'm not sure why that happens.

While you're around, Timo :-)

I've had such an issue recently with 2.2.18, using Maildir, where emails were being replicated circularly creating more and more duplicate copies. Replication should have been unidirectional in reality since changes were being made on one side only. Nothing coherent was being logged. Only "Warning: Maildir /srv/mail/domains/.../Maildir: Expunged message reappeared, giving a new UID .. " appearing on the receiving side. Is there any intelligence on the matter, or should I isolate this down and report it from scratch?

Timo,

I use mdbox and probably have similar issue, but in my case only shared mailboxes were affected.

May 26 12:35:05 mx10 dovecot: doveadm: Error: dsync-remote(anna.harina@bgoperator.com): Error: Mailbox shared/l.davydjanc@bgoperator.com/russia: Save commit failed: Message has been copied too many times (50045 + 1) May 26 12:35:19 mx10 dovecot: dsync-local(anna.harina@bgoperator.com): Error: Mailbox shared/l.davydjanc@bgoperator.com/russia: Save commit failed: Message has been copied too many times (16511 + 16257) May 26 12:35:42 mx10 dovecot: doveadm: Error: dsync-remote(angelina.alieva@bgoperator.com): Error: Mailbox shared/l.davydjanc@bgoperator.com/russia: Save commit failed: Message has been copied too many times (50045 + 1) May 26 12:35:42 mx10 dovecot: dsync-local(angelina.alieva@bgoperator.com): Error: Mailbox shared/l.davydjanc@bgoperator.com/russia: Save commit failed: Message has been copied too many times (16511 + 16257) May 26 12:37:21 mx10 dovecot: doveadm: Error: dsync-remote(e.shestakova@bgoperator.com): Error: Mailbox shared/l.davydjanc@bgoperator.com/russia: Save commit failed: Message has been copied too many times (50045 + 1) May 26 12:37:41 mx10 dovecot: dsync-local(e.shestakova@bgoperator.com): Error: Mailbox shared/l.davydjanc@bgoperator.com/russia: Save commit failed: Message has been copied too many times (16511 + 16257) May 26 12:59:45 mx10 dovecot: doveadm: Error: dsync-remote(m.korobova@bgoperator.com): Error: Mailbox turkey: Save commit failed: Message has been copied too many times (24498 + 8270) May 26 13:00:34 mx10 dovecot: doveadm: Error: dsync-remote(g.zhelonkina@bgoperator.com): Error: Mailbox booking: Save commit failed: Message has been copied too many times (55213 + 1) May 26 13:09:18 mx10 dovecot: dsync-local(l.davydjanc@bgoperator.com): Error: Mailbox russia: Save commit failed: Message has been copied too many times (16511 + 16257) May 26 13:09:30 mx10 dovecot: doveadm: Error: dsync-remote(l.davydjanc@bgoperator.com): Error: Mailbox russia: Save commit failed: Message has been copied too many times (50045 + 1) May 26 13:19:50 mx10 dovecot: doveadm: Error: dsync-remote(g.zhelonkina@bgoperator.com): Error: Mailbox booking: Save commit failed: Message has been copied too many times (55213 + 1)

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08.09.2015 01:25, Timo Sirainen пишет:

On 08 Sep 2015, at 01:16, Gedalya <gedalya@gedalya.net> wrote:

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On 02/17/2013 03:21 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:

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Although there's still some mail duplication problem with maildir that doesn't log any errors about it. I'm not sure why that happens. While you're around, Timo :-)

I've had such an issue recently with 2.2.18, using Maildir, where emails were being replicated circularly creating more and more duplicate copies. Replication should have been unidirectional in reality since changes were being made on one side only. Nothing coherent was being logged. Only "Warning: Maildir /srv/mail/domains/.../Maildir: Expunged message reappeared, giving a new UID .. " appearing on the receiving side. Is there any intelligence on the matter, or should I isolate this down and report it from scratch? dsync bugs usually take a lot of time to debug. Unless there's an easily reproducible way to break it, I try to avoid spending time on it. Also in this case the bug might be in Maildir code instead of dsync code.

Timo,

Is it possible to limit replication scope with INBOX namespace only ?

Best regards, Sergey Schwartz

Senior System Administrator Biblio Globus Tour Operator www.bgoperator.ru

T: +7 495 5042500 ext 1532 E: sergey.schwartz@bgoperator.com

08.09.2015 13:24, Timo Sirainen пишет:

On 08 Sep 2015, at 11:20, Sergey Schwartz <sergey.schwartz@bgoperator.com> wrote:

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I use mdbox and probably have similar issue, but in my case only shared mailboxes were affected. Yes, shared mailboxes don't work nicely with replication. Replication is locking only the original user, so for shared mailboxes multiple dsyncs can be running in parallel and messing things up. A bit troublesome to fix this. I've had this issue happening for a couple of years now for our mails and I haven't bothered fixing it, so it's unlikely I'll do it anytime soon.. Although I haven't seen that many duplicates of the mails - just 10 or so.