Re: Replication: does it work in both directions?

2007-11-13 Thread David Carter
On Sun, 11 Nov 2007, Rich Wales wrote: So, I would have replication set up going both directions between my two servers, but the sets of users handled in each direction would be disjoint. Each user would be assigned to one IMAP server (the master for their mailbox collection), and the

Re: Replication: does it work in both directions?

2007-11-12 Thread Rudy Gevaert
Rich Wales wrote: Earlier, I wrote: What do I need to do in order for changes made on the replica to get copied over to the master? Bron Gondwana replied: Impossible. You don't do this. What you can do (the simple case of what we do) is set up two Cyrus instances on each machine,

Re: Replication: does it work in both directions?

2007-11-12 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 08:41:04PM -0800, Rich Wales wrote: Earlier, I wrote: What do I need to do in order for changes made on the replica to get copied over to the master? Bron Gondwana replied: Impossible. You don't do this. What you can do (the simple case of what we do) is

Re: Replication: does it work in both directions?

2007-11-12 Thread Rich Wales
Bron Gondwana wrote: It doesn't work like that. Rolling replication gets events from actions on mailboxes (lmtp deliver, imapd updates, etc) and logs them - then the sync_client process running in the background reads that log file and uses the actions to know what things to check and sync

Re: Replication: does it work in both directions?

2007-11-12 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:37:12 -0800, Rich Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Bron Gondwana wrote: It doesn't work like that. Rolling replication gets events from actions on mailboxes (lmtp deliver, imapd updates, etc) and logs them - then the sync_client process running in the background

Re: Replication: does it work in both directions?

2007-11-12 Thread Rich Wales
Bron Gondwana wrote: [A mailbox list on the sync_client command line] works fine as a one-off, but not for rolling, because rolling reads the log. Understood. That said, only users who have had any actions on that server will create log entries. Interesting. This actually suggests that I

Re: Replication: does it work in both directions?

2007-11-11 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 07:51:15PM -0800, Rich Wales wrote: I'm using replication on a 2.3.9 system. I know that if changes happen on the master system, they are propagated automatically to the replica system. But what happens if I make a change on the replica (e.g., by setting up an

Re: Replication: does it work in both directions?

2007-11-11 Thread Rich Wales
Earlier, I wrote: What do I need to do in order for changes made on the replica to get copied over to the master? Bron Gondwana replied: Impossible. You don't do this. What you can do (the simple case of what we do) is set up two Cyrus instances on each machine, replicating to each

Replication: does it work in both directions?

2007-11-10 Thread Rich Wales
I'm using replication on a 2.3.9 system. I know that if changes happen on the master system, they are propagated automatically to the replica system. But what happens if I make a change on the replica (e.g., by setting up an account to access its mail through the replica's IMAP server)? I tried