From: Ken Murchison (no email)
Date: Wed Jan 03 2007 - 08:18:15 EST
Gary Mills wrote:
> My current e-mail server has both SMTP and IMAP running on the same
> machine. I'm building a new IMAP server on a different machine that
> will ultimately have ten times the capacity. I'm looking for a way to
> migrate mailboxes from the old server to the new one without shutting
> down the whole service for an extended period of time.
>
> Can I use the old server as both a front end and one of the back ends
> for a murder configuration, with the new server as the second back end?
> Will that allow me to migrate mailboxes at my convenience? How do I
> prevent a port conflict between the IMAP server and the proxy on the
> old server?
You'll have to run the frontend + mupdate master on a separate machine.
> Do I have to run the same Cyrus version on both machines? Currently,
> the old server runs cyrus-imapd-2.1.14 and the new one runs
> cyrus-imapd-2.3.6.
No, assuming that 2.1.x has support for the XFER/DUMP commands (I don't
recall).
-- Kenneth Murchison Systems Programmer Project Cyrus Developer/Maintainer Carnegie Mellon University ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
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