On 22.03.2016 21:30, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > I keep having some replication issues and not sure what can be done to > resolve or correct. It > does not seem to happen all the time, though for the last ~30 or so minutes > and many > messages seems to be happening consistent for me. > > I have 2 mail servers, basically clones, and thus master master replication. > Most of the time > things work fine. But many times an email or several will arrive on one, and > never replicate > to the other. I am not as concerned on the never replicating, as I am that > the user never gets > notified. > > Mail arrives on say server 1, users are checking mail on server 2, and they > never see the email > on server 2. This is not always the case, but its happening enough daily. I > then log into one > and run sync manually. Which usually syncs the mail on both servers, and then > it arrives in > the inbox. > > Here is an example, mail is on mail2, but not mail1. I am checking email on > mail1 so I am not > seeing the 1 email. > > Mail1 > /home/wlt-ml/.maildir/new: > total 0 > > Mail2 > /home/wlt-ml/.maildir/new: > total 12 > -rw------- 1 wlt-ml site1 8502 Mar 22 14:57 1458673024.7643.mail2 > > Then I manually log into mail2 and run this command, though usually I can run > it from either > side, and just change the name to the other server. > > doveadm sync -u "*" remote:mail1 > > And then I end up with the missing email on mail1, and it arrives in my email > client shortly > there after > > Mail1 > /home/wlt-ml/.maildir/new: > total 12 > -rw------- 1 wlt-ml site1 8502 Mar 22 14:57 > 1458673051.M838843P26735.mail1,S=8502,W=8678:2,T > > I have no idea why it does this. It seems to happen when when a full sync has > taken place > per doveadm replicator status wlt-ml. There does not seem to be any settings > to force a full > vs fast sync more often. No clue if this is even a full vs fast issue or > other. > > I think it tends to happen more when people stay connected to the imap > server. I had a > theory that closing the email client and opening it again will get dovecot to > sync. I believe > this is still the case, but not able to confirm 100%. Also users are > reporting closing > Thunderbird. I can see them logging out and back in in the logs, but email > does not replicate > or show till I run doveadm sync manually. > > Tempted to have cron invoke that on the regular, but seems very hackish and > likely will have > its own issues doing that. Since its not the right way or how things were > designed. Not sure > if this is a bug or what. Hopefully miss-configuration on my end. You should still include your doveconf -n output. Also any errors and warnings logged by dovecot, could be useful.
br, Teemu Huovila > Open to any feedback, advice, etc. I can provide replicator configuration but > its pretty > straight forward and mostly copy/paste from the replication page. Replication > works, just > seems it is not triggered to replicate at times or something. > > dovecot --version > 2.2.22 (fe789d2) > >
