Sieve Script Replication Gliches (Report #2)

Reuben Farrelly
Wed, 07 Sep 2016 09:44:42 -0000

On 24/08/2016 10:58 AM, Stephan Bosch wrote:
> Op 8/1/2016 om 3:37 AM schreef Reuben Farrelly:
>> In other words, the rules did eventually get propagated across, and
>> based on the file sizes they are complete.
>>
>> But there is obviously something amiss with handling of dates (which
>> in turn may relate to how the system determines that the file on each
>> server is up to date or not, I guess).  In this case the two systems
>> are in different timezones - the primary is GMT+10 and the secondary
>> GMT+8.
>>
>> Also the status of active users is not always replicated either.  On
>> one host the output of 'doveadm sieve list -A' shows my own
account as
>> ACTIVE but the other host shows all users - except for my account - as
>> being active, and the sieve script for my account is not being
>> replicated.
> This should fix the file timestamps getting set at unix time_t 0:
>
>
https://github.com/dovecot/pigeonhole/commit/af91dd3f2d78da752292dce27f9e76d2c936868c
>
> I haven't been able to replicate the situation where this occurs
though,
> since my current replication setup is very simple.
>
> I need to extend my replication setup to test this more thoroughly.
>
> So, please test this at your end first.
>
> Regards,
>
> Stephan.

Thanks Stephan.  I have re-tested and the dates are now all look to be
correct on the replicated scripts.  We can cross that off as fixed now.

There is still a problem with the scripts not being replicated though
between replicated hosts.  They do eventually catch up many hours
later.  I don't know what the trigger is for them updating but it's not
triggered by delivery attempts (as every time a delivery was attempted
the secondary complained about the missing sieve script).

Thanks,
Reuben