[NOISSUE] Newbie question about replication

[Piotr Auksztulewicz]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 12:08:05AM +0200, Piotr Auksztulewicz wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 11:14:26PM +0200, John Fawcett wrote:
> > can you check if the missing emails are in the new directory on host B?
> 
> I cannot now. I did not think about that possibility when listing the
> contents of directories and have not checked the new directory.
> 
> > My guess is that the missing emails appeared on host A in new and were
> > replicated to host B in new. Then the imap client connected to host A
> > moved them from new to cur on host A and that such movement is not
> > subject to replica. So long as the emails have been replicated to either
> > new or cur on host B, then it should not be an issue about losing emails
> > if host A goes down, since connecting an imap client to host B will move
> > the emails to cur (that is no replication involved).

I have observed my servers for a few days and this is exactly what happens
- some mails are still in new/ on host B. The whole issue is nonexsitent.

Thanks for the hint.

-- 
Piotr "Malgond" Auksztulewicz                     firstname at lastname.net