Le mar. 26 févr. 2019 à 22:58, David Myers <david.myers.24...@gmail.com> a écrit :
> Hello Francis, > > I wonder if this is due to how a cluster is configured to function > internally. > > Tell us more about the cluster, is it one of those ‘fancy pants’ high > availability, auto backup heart beat things, or is it more a traditional > multi server (master slave style) setup. > > Either way you may need to disconnect the servers from one another and > delete the offending files / directories either via dove or or via the os > (although reading your original email it sounds like you are already > attempting this). > > If you have a fancy cluster this may actually be more difficult than it > sounds and have interesting (unwanted) side effects, also the underlying > database (if you are storing emails that way) may have a method to remove > data > > I assume you are keeping back up copies of all those emails somewhere, > just in case you need them in the future. > > See this wiki article to better understand what I mean by the ‘fancy > pants’ clusters : > https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-availability_cluster > They sound very cool, but I suspect are overkill for a mail server, unless > your database is already inside one then it would make sense I guess. > > Hello, I just use the cluster/replication functionality integrated into dovecot, nothing more. There is no database involved. I use LDAP for the authentication. The mails are stored locally on each server and replicated with the replication feature of dovecot. I followed this wiki article: https://wiki.dovecot.org/Replication Thanks! -- Francis
