Fix issues with syncing mailservers

[jakubgs]

Problem

In relation to recent postmortem of DB issues we found that syncing mailservers using the available instructions doesn't work properly.

Notes

I've made a script for syncing mailservers by calling the 3 methods described in the instructions:

• admin_addPeer - Which returns result: true but is lying
• shh_markTrustedPeer - Which fails due to peer not being added
• shhext_syncMessages - Which will fail if peer is not marked as trusted

Issues

The shh_markTrustedPeer call fails with:

Could not find peer with ID: 2721ca3e5c87d73ce892bd0710f9a78eef4c800f92aeaa7feec8b9b86b62c131

If peer has not been added already. And apparently admin_addPeer is an async call.

For that reason I implemented a loop that calls admin_addPeer and admin_peers in order to catch the moment when peer is added before trying to mark it as trusted. The issue with that is that it never worked:

Failed to addPeer, sleeping...
Failed to addPeer, sleeping...
Failed to addPeer, sleeping...
Failed to addPeer, sleeping...

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[jakubgs]

Still relevant.

[jakubgs]

Still broken, but okay.

[cammellos]

Closing because we will be working exclusively on waku-v2 store nodes, but yes, still broken, we should eventually remove the code