P> 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.
P> If you can get the dovecot native sync to work, it seems to be a P> better option, as it understands all the dovecot index formats etc, P> and will transfer those correctly. Imapsync doesn't, and when I did P> that I had a few problems with POP email clients re-downloading P> their entire Inbox, which produced a few groans. Your mileage may vary. P> Another option for you, if you have the time and energy would be P> to set up proper replication between the two servers. Then any P> changes made would be synced in real time, until the cutoff, when P> you just shut down the old server and the new one is already up to P> date. But if you can't get a simple sync happening then that might be a bit of over-reach. P> My suspicions on your current situation would center around the P> complications introduced by docker, and on file/container P> permissions, environment variables, paths etc. P> How about if you just try a simple doveadm command over ssh from P> the remote server to make sure that works. eg. from "Sending" server do P> ssh r...@po.abc.net \ P> docker exec b3093cxxxxxx doveadm user u...@abc.net P> That should execute the doveadm user command on the remote P> (receiving) server. If that works, then at least you can satisfy P> yourself that the docker bit is working correctly. Not sure why I'm P> getting involved in someone else's troubleshooting nightmare! ;-) doveadm user does work. i.e. ssh r...@abc.net docker exec b3093c6200a9 doveadm user u...@abc.net I get the uid/gid/home/maildir of that account, etc. I do appreciate the help you've given!
