Re: Can murder be used for IMAP server migration?

From: Gary Mills (no email)
Date: Thu Jan 18 2007 - 20:16:58 EST

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    On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 07:47:54AM -0500, Ken Murchison wrote:
    > Gary Mills wrote:
    > >On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 08:18:15AM -0500, Ken Murchison wrote:
    > >>Gary Mills wrote:
    > >>>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.
    >
    > >so the frontend has to run there. Of course, the old IMAP server has
    > >to run there too. Is there not a way to have the old IMAP server listen
    > >on different ports, so that only the frontend connects to it? If not,
    > >could it listen on a secondary IP address only?
    >
    > It *might* make sense to upgrade the existing server to 2.3.x, since
    > imapd can both proxy and serve local mailboxes (a "unified" Murder).

    Is there any documentation on how to configure and manage a unified
    Murder? I couldn't find anything in the 2.3.7 source that described
    it. In fact, the examples in the documentation still show the proxy
    daemons, which no longer exist.

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