[Dovecot] Dovecot replication - I'm stuck

[IT geek 31]

Ah, gutted.  Neither are an option right now.

Thanks for your help anyway.


-Mark


On 28 October 2013 15:13, /dev/rob0 <rob0 at gmx.co.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 01:43:48AM +0100, IT geek 31 wrote:
> > I've been following the wiki document at
> > http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Replication, but I've become stuck.
> >
> > I'm running version 2.1.3 on NetBSD 5.2 (v2.2+ isn't available as a
> > package yet, and compiling my own is well outside my wheelhouse).
> >
> > I have a couple of questions:
> >
> > The wiki page keeps referring to "vmail".  Is this a just system
> > user I need to create?  Presumably on both Dovecot boxes?
> >
> > If I don't use virtual users, do I need this?
>
> No. If you're using system users, each user owns his/her own mail.
> Replication would have to be done as root (or of course by a special
> user with sudo or other privilege escalation.)
>
> Scroll further down that page to the part about "dsync wrapper script
> for root SSH login (v2.2+)", but oops, you don't have 2.2. Sad. I
> guess you'll either have to upgrade or figure out another way to do
> this (probably out of Dovecot scope.)
>
> > Here is my dovecot -n:
> snip
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