[Dovecot] General questions about TCP replication with dsync

[James TD Smith]

On 2014-06-05 17:39:26(+0200), Patrick De Zordo wrote:
> > > > > 2. Question (much more important):
> > > > >
> > > > > We are using sieve scripts for our users, they are replicated to
> > > > > the replica-host but this errors appears in logs on every synchronized
> > message:
> > > > >
> > > > > ---8<-------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > > ---------
> > > > > dsync-server(email at example.com): Error: Failed to access mailbox
> > > > > dovecot/sieve: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for
> > > > > more information.
> > > > >
> > > > > dsync-server(email at example.com): Error:
> > > > > stat(/var/vmail/example.com/email/.dovecot.sieve/tmp) failed: Not
> > > > > a directory
> > > > >
> > > > > ---8<-------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > > ---------
> > > > >
> > > > > So what’s going on there?
> > > > >
> > > > > This is strange and should not be, right?
> > > > >
> > > > > Any hints?
> > 
> > It looks like it thinks the .dovecot.sieve file should be a Maildir. Are you using
> > the Maildir++ format for your mail stores? That uses "." as a separator for
> > mailbox names. You might want to try changing the "sieve" config option
> > from ".dovecot.sieve" to something which doesn't contain dots and rename
> > the files to match.
> > 
> 
> I'm using "/" as separator ("separator = /" in configuration)..
> SO it shouldn't be the problem..

That parameter controls how the mailbox names are presented over IMAP, not how
they are stored on disk. If you run "doveadm mailbox list -u email at example.com"
you'll get a list like

INBOX
Sent
Drafts
MailingLists/dovecot

etc, but if you look in /var/vmail/example.com/email you'll see something like

cur/
new/
tmp/
.Sent/
.Drafts/
.MailingList.dovecot/

If you add LAYOUT=fs to the mail_location option it will store the mailboxes as
a directory hierarchy. You'll need to convert all the mailboxes to the new
layout, changing the sieve file name will be much less work. 

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation/Maildir

> Is your sync up and running? With sieve scripts?

Yes, my sync works. I don't use sieve though.

James

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