On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, John Alton Tamplin wrote: > Would it be possible to use Murder to migrate from UW IMAP? I have > Cyrus setup and running on a new machine, but the problem is that taking > everything down and converting all the mailboxes would be too much > downtime (2-3 days). What I was thinking of is setting up a frontend > server with UW IMAP and Cyrus as the backend servers, with the initial > mupdated database showing all the mailboxes were on the old IMAP server. > UW IMAP isn't going to talk to mupdated, but if no mailboxes are being > created there it seems like that won't matter. As each mailbox is moved > to the new server, the master list of mailboxes is reflected to update > the new location. > > From my inspection of the documentation and some of the code, it looks > like this should work with a couple of caveats (during the transition, > users have to be prevented from creating new mailboxes -- this can be > hacked in the code, and connections that have been referred to the old > server have to be broken when the mailbox is transferred). Does anyone > see a reason why this won't work or any other gotchas to watch for? Thanks.
So, the murder really isn't intended to work like this. Does UW-IMAPd even support proxy authentication? If it does, *offhand*, provided you're not using internal mechanisms to move the mailboxes (i.e. you are moving them by hand), I don't really see a reason this won't work, but I'm not going to recommend it. Do you really have so much data that it would take 2-3 days to move it? -Rob -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Rob Siemborski * Andrew Systems Group * Cyert Hall 207 * 412-268-7456 Research Systems Programmer * /usr/contributed Gatekeeper
