dovecot - Dec 2009 - expire db(s)?

with two separate dovecot/backend servers accessing one central mysql 
server, will it be ok to have them both use the same expires table? Or 
will that confuse the actual
  dovecot --exec-mail ext /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/expire-tool.sh
cronjob since some of the entries mailboxes won't exist locally?

   Ben

On Dec 18, 2009, at 5:57 PM, ben at electricembers.net wrote:
> with two separate dovecot/backend servers accessing one central mysql
server, will it be ok to have them both use the same expires table? Or will that
confuse the actual
> dovecot --exec-mail ext /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/expire-tool.sh
> cronjob since some of the entries mailboxes won't exist locally?

It'll break. If userdb lookup fails, expire-tool thinks that the user no
longer exists and deletes the row from database. If it succeeds but the mail
directory doesn't exist, it'll think the mailbox was deleted and deletes
the row from database.