Re: Trouble with replication via IMAP

Nels Lindquist <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.cyrus
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi, Ellie.

On 2023-04-18 5:51 p.m., ellie timoney wrote:

> Did you somehow turn off "sync_try_imap" (in imapd.conf on the 
> primary)?  It should be on by default unless it's configured to be off.  
> If it's on (by default or otherwise), sync_client will always try to 
> make an IMAP connection to the replica before falling back to CSYNC if 
> that fails.  If it's off, it will only try CSYNC, which requires 
> sync_server to be running on the replica.  It sounds like your 
> sync_client is only trying CSYNC, which makes me think "sync_try_imap" 
> is turned off.
> 
> Here's the relevant paragraph from the imapd.conf(5) man page:
> 
>>           sync_try_imap: 1
>>               Whether sync_client should try to perform an IMAP 
>> connection before fall‐
>>               ing back to csync.  If this is set to "no",  
>> sync_client  will  only  use
>>               csync.  Prefix with a channel name to apply only for 
>> that channel

I did indeed see that option on the manpage, and confirmed I hadn't 
inadvertently disabled it. I tried forcing it on by explicitly enabling 
it in imapd.conf, but it made no difference.

Nels Lindquist
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