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<span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">On 26/10/2020 19:25, John Fawcett wrote:</span></div>
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> On 25/10/2020 17:19, jayare~dcml at videocoding.org wrote:
<div>>> I've got a basic dovecot master-master replication setup between two</div>
<div>>> servers (imap1 and imap2). Actions such as deleting messages or moving</div>
<div>>> them between folders are replicated correctly and quickly.</div>
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<div>>> However, when new mail is delivered by postfix, replication does not</div>
<div>>> occur until something else triggers it, such as one of the delete/move</div>
<div>>> actions mentioned earlier. A search suggested this may be due to the</div>
<div>>> notify plugin, but I don't see any issue with the settings. Output of</div>
<div>>> doveconf -n:</div>
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<div>> Hi</div>
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<div>> is there any error in the log?</div>
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<div>> Can you show some evidence or an example? ie some email delivery in the</div>
<div>> master but not on the slave?</div>
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<div>> Can you be sure to check both new and cur subdirectories on master and</div>
<div>> slave?</div>
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<div>> John</div>
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There's precisely nothing in the log. The new mail arrives on the master, and it is as though dovecot completely ignores it for the purposes of replication.</div>
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However, I think I have solved the problem by enabling LMTP and forcing postfix to go through that rather than writing to the maildir directly. Perhaps LMTP is required for replication and I just didn't realize it. End result is (I think) it is working properly.</div>
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