[Dovecot] Turning off "Fixed Duplicates" feature

Jordan Tardif jordan at hq.newdream.net
Fri Nov 13 02:22:54 EET 2009


On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 16:12 -0800, Jordan Tardif wrote:
>> Yes that depends on DNS updating. So is there not way to avoid this
>> Duplication problem if you need to do an rsync 2x?
>
> Not really. The move should preferably be atomic.. With Dovecot v2.0
> there's dsync utility, which would pretty much do what you want. But
> that doesn't really help you yet.
>
> I guess the easiest solution would be to:
>
> 1) Remove the duplicate detection/fixing code from Dovecot code.
> 2) Create a script that resolves duplicates by deleting one of them.

So if I do #1 , do you see this causing any other problems with dovecot?


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Jordan Tardif
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