If anyone is interested - I found the problem in my setup:

protocol lda { mail_plugins = " sieve" }

needs to have both "replication" and "notify"

protocol lda { mail_plugins = " sieve replication notify" }

Maybe it is just me, but the Replication wiki page is not detailed enough. I had lots of problems trying to figure out which process runs on which machine, and in the context of which user.

For example, the first note mentions that "doveadm user '*'" has to work. It does not the context when this command would be running. This is important, because it takes 2 steps to configure it properly:

• to make sure the command runs at all - configure the userdb properly
• to make sure the UNIX user account which would be running it has the right to do it.

As a result, there are couple of posts on this list bumping up permissions to various sockets/fifos in /var/run/dovecot directory, probably in attempts to let 'vmail' user run "doveadm user '*'". And I still don't know if 'vmail' user runs it or not...

Milan

exim is configured to use dovecot's deliver as LDA. Milan Cvetkovic wrote:

Hi,

I am trying to setup dovecot replication based on:

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Replication

All mailboxes share the same UNIX userid ('vmail'), and I setup ssh-key based login for this account in both directions. As LDA exim4 is configured to use dovecot deliver LDA. Here is the relevant config from exim:

/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -d $local_part -f $sender_address -a $original_local_part@$original_domain

When a message is deposited to a mailbox, it does not get replicated. The log is silent:

Mar 25 15:00:20 mx02 dovecot: master: Dovecot v2.2.9 starting up (core dumps disabled) Mar 25 15:01:05 mx02 dovecot: lda(user.name): msgid=unspecified: saved mail to INBOX

The output from doveconf -n is attached.

Any help is appreciated,

Thanks, Milan.

doveconf-n.txt

# 2.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 x86_64 Debian 7.4 auth_mechanisms = plain login mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_plugins = " notify replication" 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 ihave 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 = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { mail_replica = remote:vmail@192.168.108.136 sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = " imap sieve pop3" replication_full_sync_interval = 1 hours service aggregator { fifo_listener replication-notify-fifo { user = vmail } unix_listener replication-notify { user = vmail } } service auth { unix_listener auth-client { mode = 0660 user = Debian-exim } } service replicator { process_min_avail = 1 unix_listener replicator-doveadm { mode = 0600 } } ssl_cert = </etc/exim4/exim.crt ssl_key = </etc/exim4/exim.key userdb { driver = prefetch } userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } protocol lda { mail_plugins = " sieve" }