On 17.2.2013, at 7.06, Timo Sirainen <t...@iki.fi> wrote: > On 17.2.2013, at 0.12, Michael Grimm <trash...@odo.in-berlin.de> wrote: > >> Hmm. Both jails run at distinct servers. ssh replication uses different >> domains, though. But, both jails are named identically "test", and both >> jails resolve to identical hostnames "test" if using "hostname". But, a >> "hostname -f" is lacking to return "test.mx1.invalid" and >> "test.mx2.invalid", respectively (although a "nslookup test" does). Hmm, do >> you think I should need to provide different hostnames in both jails? > > That's the problem most likely. I'd guess Dovecot sees both servers as having > "test" as the hostname and each server thinks it's the one that should be > doing the locking and not the other. > > See if this helps: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.2/rev/e7aabd79c9d5
Although even if it does, other parts of Dovecot still use only the hostname part to guarantee global uniqueness of things. So better to have unique hostnames.
