Again: GUID change to SHA1

Martin Schweizer schweizer.martin at gmail.com
Tue Feb 26 05:19:35 EST 2008


Hello Bron

2008/2/25, Bron Gondwana <brong at fastmail.fm>:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 05:52:34PM +0100, Martin Schweizer wrote:
  >  >  >
>  >  >  > I use FreeBSD 6.3 and cyrus 2.3.11.  Below is the manual for the change.
>  >  >  >
>  >  >  > Upgrading from 2.3.9
>  >  >  >
>  >  >  >      * The method used for generating Globally Unique IDentifiers used
>  >  >  > for replication has been changed to be the SHA1
>  >  >  >        hash of the messages. If you wish to upgrade the existing GUIDs
>  >  >  > in particular mailbox(es) or the entire server,
>  >  >  >        perform the following steps in the listed order. Note that is
>  >  >  > is NOT REQUIRED that existing GUIDs be upgraded.
>  >  >  >          1. Zero GUIDs on the replica (reconstruct -g)
>  >  >  >          2. Regenerate GUIDs on the master (reconstruct -G)
>  >  >  >          3. Regenerate GUIDs on the replica (reconstruct -G)
>  >  >  >
>  >  >  > Which is the master and which is the replica? Server 1 or Server 2?
>  >  >
>  >  > > [...]
>  >  >  > Server 1:
>  >  >
>  >  > >   syncclient   cmd="/usr/local/cyrus/bin/sync_client -r"
>  >  >
>  >  >
>  >  > Master
>  >  >
>  >  >  > Server 2:
>  >  >
>  >  > >   syncserver    cmd="/usr/local/cyrus/bin/sync_server"
>  > listen="csync" prefork=0
>  >  >
>  >  >
>  >  > Replica
>  >
>  >
>  > Thanks for the hint. I was not sure about the terms.
>  >
>  >  On the master I get after the changes (used of reconstruct...) the
>  >  following output
>  >
>  >  grep sync /var/log/debug.log
>  >
>  >  Feb 22 09:09:03 acsvfbsd02 sync_client[73967]: DIGEST-MD5 client step 1
>  >  Feb 22 09:09:03 acsvfbsd02 sync_client[73967]: DIGEST-MD5 client step 2
>  >  Feb 22 09:09:03 acsvfbsd02 sync_client[73967]: DIGEST-MD5 client step 3
>  >  Feb 22 09:15:09 acsvfbsd02 sync_client[73967]: seen_db: user astomas
>  >  opened /var/imap/user/a/astomas.seen
>  >  Feb 22 09:19:04 acsvfbsd02 sync_client[74023]: DIGEST-MD5 client step 1
>  >  Feb 22 09:19:04 acsvfbsd02 sync_client[74023]: DIGEST-MD5 client step 2
>  >  Feb 22 09:19:04 acsvfbsd02 sync_client[74023]: DIGEST-MD5 client step 3
>  >
>  >  Is that correct? This I  got also before I did the changes.
>
>
> Sorry about the delay in replying.  That just looks like debugging info.
>  We don't get it, so I wonder if you have a debugging level turned on
>  that we don't.

Here my imapd.conf from the "client":

configdirectory: /var/imap
partition-default: /var/spool/imap
admins:root cyrus
sasl_pwcheck_method: auxprop
sasl_mech_list: PLAIN LOGIN CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5
sasl_sasldb_path: /usr/local/etc/sasldb2
lmtpsocket:/var/imap/socket/lmtp

allowplaintext: yes

sync_host: acsvfbsd012.beast.ch
sync_authname: cyrus
sync_password: XXXXXXXXXX
sync_machineid: 1
sync_log: 1
sync_repeat_interval: 1
sasl_log_level: 7




>  The important question is: are your messages being replicated?

Yes, the messages will replicated all the time.

Regards,

-- 
Martin Schweizer
schweizer.martin at gmail.com
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