Duplicate mail id issue, mailbox does not exist when dovecot tries to generate a new guid so replication can take place

[Daniel Botting]

On 15/01/18 13:08, Günther J. Niederwimmer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Am Montag, 15. Januar 2018, 13:54:22 CET schrieb Daniel Botting:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> When we run the below one user constantly shows as failed (dovecot
>> version is 2.2.13):
>>
>> sudo doveadm replicator status "*"
>>
>> mail.log shows the below for the user:
>>
>> Jan  3 16:20:57 hostname dovecot: dsync-server(user): Error: Duplicate
>> mailbox GUID <guid number> for mailboxes <mailbox name.sub folder> and
>> <mailbox name.sub folder> - giving a new GUID <guid number> to <mailbox
>> name.subfolder>
>>
>> Jan  3 16:20:57 hostname dovecot: dsync-server(user): Error: Couldn't
>> update mailbox <sub folder name> GUID: Mailbox doesn't exist: <sub
>> folder name>
>>
>> Looking at their mailbox the folder does exist.
>>
>> Has anybody seen this before and would be aware of the way to resolve?
> Yes with PAM config :-(.
>
> I must setup a ldap Instance and configure the second dovecot equal to the first
> dovecot!
>
> afterward all is OK?
>   
>
Hi Gunther,

Many thanks for your reply.

The main mailserver and the replication server are both LDAP connected 
already.

Kind regards

Daniel