On 10 Oct 2014, at 11:05, Peter Mogensen <a...@one.com> wrote: > It seems we are still able to reproduce this: > http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2014-May/096367.html > > However... there's no longer any error-messages. It just silently changes > permissions on some dovecot files in the source maildir. (most often > dovecot-uidlist) > > We're running dsync as root, with hardwired userdb values for other reasons. > So it has the OS permissions to change source. But still, running in "backup" > shouldn't change source ever, should it?
It's not doing any changes to mailbox contents, but it's still updating the index/uidlist files as part of its normal operation. > The command line is of this format - running on destination-host: > > > # dsync -R -o mail_home=/users/user/maildir backup ssh -c arcfour -o > StrictHostKeyChecking=no -i /root/.ssh/id-rsa-dsync source-host "dsync -o > mail_home=/users/user/maildir" You should use -u user@domain parameter in both sides so it drops root privileges.
