> On 15/05/2020 07:10 Plutocrat <plutoc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 15/05/2020 10.56, Gregory Sloop wrote: > > IMAP sync looks better and better. I'm a little puzzled why I don't just > > give up walking on the broken glass and use it - but it just bugs the heck > > out of me. > > If you can get the dovecot native sync to work, it seems to be a better > option, as it understands all the dovecot index formats etc, and will > transfer those correctly. Imapsync doesn't, and when I did that I had a few > problems with POP email clients re-downloading their entire Inbox, which > produced a few groans. Your mileage may vary. > > Another option for you, if you have the time and energy would be to set up > proper replication between the two servers. Then any changes made would be > synced in real time, until the cutoff, when you just shut down the old server > and the new one is already up to date. But if you can't get a simple sync > happening then that might be a bit of over-reach. > > My suspicions on your current situation would center around the complications > introduced by docker, and on file/container permissions, environment > variables, paths etc. > > How about if you just try a simple doveadm command over ssh from the remote > server to make sure that works. eg. from "Sending" server do > > ssh r...@po.abc.net \ > docker exec b3093cxxxxxx doveadm user u...@abc.net > > That should execute the doveadm user command on the remote (receiving) > server. If that works, then at least you can satisfy yourself that the docker > bit is working correctly. Not sure why I'm getting involved in someone else's > troubleshooting nightmare! ;-) > > P.
You need to have ssh installed. If you want to do sync over ssh. The docker image hasn't got ssh client installed by default. Also see https://wiki.dovecot.org/Replication for more configuration options. Aki
