after replication with compression quotas are wrong

Arnaud Abélard arnaud.abelard at univ-nantes.fr
Sun Nov 7 18:31:57 UTC 2021


Hello again,

I've found out that some mailboxes  are actually duplicated. Doveadm 
replicator status on the production server gives this:

~# doveadm replicator status 'dummy-c-1*'
username                              priority fast sync full sync 
success sync failed
dummy-c-1                             none     01:13:19  01:13:19 
01:13:19     -
dummy-c-1 at univ-nantes.fr              none     00:15:28  00:15:28 
00:15:28     -

That'd explain why mails are counted twice when replicated on the new 
server but where does this come from since I don't have this quota 
problem on the production server?

 From the logs, it seems that postfix uses username at univ-nantes.fr when 
calling dovecot's LDA so I suppose that the non-'@univ-nantes.fr' 
mailboxes are the erroneous ones.

The users aren't duplicated in our ldap user backend and aren't using 
the @univ-nantes.fr part.

~# doveadm user 'dummy-c-1*'
dummy-c-1

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Arnaud





On 05/11/2021 16:21, Arnaud Abélard wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> We are very long time happy dovecot users (since 2008 at least). We have 
> around 90k mailboxes and since we had to move away from our NAS storage 
> to a ceph storage I jumped on the opportunity to enable compression with 
> the zlib plugin and dovecot's replication mecanism. We are using 
> debian's dovecot 2.2.27 packages on production and our new server is 
> running dovecot's own ce-2.3.17 packages.
> 
> On the production server everything works fine but on the new server, 
> replicated mailboxes' quota is all wrong:
> 
> on production:
> # doveadm quota get -u dummy-c-1
> Quota name        Type     Value  Limit                             %
> Quota Utilisateur STORAGE 660026 976563                            67
> Quota Utilisateur MESSAGE   8651      -                             0
> 
> on new server:
> doveadm quota get -u dummy-c-1
> Quota name        Type      Value  Limit                           %
> Quota Utilisateur STORAGE 1125251 976563                         115
> Quota Utilisateur MESSAGE   16646      -                           0
> 
> If I add all the S flag from the filenames n both servers I get exactly 
> the same usage, which is coherent with the quota on the production server:
> 
> # find . -type f | grep 'S=' | awk -F'S=' '{print $2}' | awk -F',' 
> '{print $1}' | awk -F':' '{print $1}' | paste -sd+ | bc -l
> 675865938
> 
> And I have exactly the same amountof mails on the two server, the 
> replication works as expected, no unwanted duplication of mails occurs.
> 
> Of course, I've tried to ask dovecot to recalculate quotas with doveadm 
> quota recalc -u <username>, but it doesn't fix the problem.
> 
> What am I missing?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Arnaud
> 
> PS: Here is my doveconf -n output:
> 
> # 2.3.17 (e2aa53df5b): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> # Pigeonhole version 0.5.17 (054dddfa)
> # OS: Linux 4.19.0-18-amd64 x86_64 Debian 10.11
> # Hostname: gromel-test
> auth_cache_size = 10 k
> auth_verbose = yes
> disable_plaintext_auth = no
> doveadm_password = # hidden, use -P to show it
> hostname = gromel1.univ-nantes.prive
> lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes
> listen = *
> log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S "
> login_trusted_networks = (...)
> mail_gid = 5000
> mail_location = maildir:%h
> mail_plugins = quota zlib notify replication
> mail_privileged_group = vmail
> mail_uid = 5000
> maildir_stat_dirs = yes
> maildir_very_dirty_syncs = yes
> managesieve_notify_capability = mailto
> managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope 
> encoded-character subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex 
> imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date 
> index ihave duplicate mime foreverypart extracttext
> namespace {
>    inbox = yes
>    location =
>    prefix = INBOX.
>    separator = .
>    type = private
> }
> passdb {
>    args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf
>    driver = ldap
> }
> plugin {
>    quota = maildir:Quota Utilisateur
>    quota_exceeded_message = Cet utilisateur a dépassé son quota, votre 
> message n'a pu lui être livré.
>    quota_full_tempfail = yes
>    quota_rule = *:storage=1000M
>    quota_rule2 = INBOX.Trash:storage=+100M
>    sieve = ~/dovecot.sieve
>    sieve_dir = ~/sieve
>    sieve_extensions = -vacation
>    sieve_global_dir = /var/lib/dovecot/sieve/global/
>    sieve_max_redirects = 1
>    zlib_save = gz
>    zlib_save_level = 6
> }
> postmaster_address = postmaster@<snip>
> protocols = imap pop3 sieve
> replication_max_conns = 50
> service auth {
>    client_limit = 49452
>    unix_listener auth-userdb {
>      group = vmail
>      mode = 0600
>      user = vmail
>    }
>    user = root
> }
> service dict {
>    unix_listener dict {
>      mode = 0600
>      user = vmail
>    }
> }
> service doveadm {
>    inet_listener {
>      port = 12345
>    }
> }
> service imap-login {
>    process_min_avail = 8
>    service_count = 0
>    user = mail
> }
> service imap {
>    executable = imap
>    process_limit = 16384
>    vsz_limit = 2 G
> }
> service managesieve-login {
>    inet_listener sieve {
>      port = 4190
>    }
>    process_min_avail = 8
>    service_count = 0
>    user = mail
>    vsz_limit = 2 G
> }
> service managesieve {
>    drop_priv_before_exec = yes
>    process_limit = 16384
> }
> service pop3-login {
>    process_min_avail = 8
>    service_count = 0
>    user = mail
> }
> service pop3 {
>    drop_priv_before_exec = yes
>    process_limit = 16384
> }
> ssl = no
> userdb {
>    args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf
>    driver = ldap
> }
> verbose_proctitle = yes
> protocol imap {
>    mail_max_userip_connections = 50
>    mail_plugins = quota zlib notify replication imap_quota zlib
> }
> protocol pop3 {
>    mail_plugins = quota zlib notify replication
> }
> protocol sieve {
>    mail_max_userip_connections = 10
> }
> protocol lda {
>    mail_plugins = quota zlib notify replication sieve zlib
> }
> 
> 
> 
> 

-- 
Arnaud Abélard
Responsable pôle Système et Stockage
Service Infrastructures
DSIN Université de Nantes
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