Re: Trouble with replication via IMAP

Nels Lindquist <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.cyrus
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2023-04-19 1:19 PM, Nels Lindquist wrote:
> 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.

Is there any further troubleshooting I could do for this? GDB backtrace? 
Packet dumps?

It's certainly not the end of the world to continue using the legacy 
protocol, but I'm happy to help diagnose IMAP replication.

-- 
Nels Lindquist
[email protected]


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