Hi Andrew and Bron, Thanks for the answers ! I will discuss another layout for archiving on this environment.
Regards. Fabio On 19 November 2014 18:22, Bron Gondwana <br...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2014, at 05:25 AM, Andrew Morgan wrote: >> On Wed, 19 Nov 2014, Fabio S. Schmidt wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > I have an environment with Cyrus Aggregator and this scenario: >> > >> > Every user has its INBOX stored on a server and has an archiving >> > folder which is kept on another server. >> > >> > I have noticed that when I move some folder from the INBOX to the >> > archiving hierarchy, Cyrus (I'm using 2.4.14) doesn't recognise it >> > and create the structure and keep the folder on the server which has >> > the INBOX stored. >> > >> > Is this scenario supported by Cyrus? >> >> The folder hierarchy in Cyrus doesn't operate like a directory >> hierarchy. If you create a sub-folder, it won't automatically be >> placed on the same server as the parent folder. You'll have to move >> the sub-folder to the archive server as well as rename it to be a sub- >> folder of the archive folder. > > What Andy said, > > But also... support for this layout isn't great in general. There's a > bunch of stuff like quotas which expects everything for a single user > to be on the same machine. Also replication, and probably a bunch of > other stuff. > > I would really prefer not to keep supporting this scenario at all - it's > going to play havoc with things like shared modseq and cross folder > search/sort. > > At FastMail we are running patches which allow us to do archiving within > each folder, such that the current week's email is on SSDs, and older > email is stored on big slow disks. > > This won't be in 2.5, but I'm hoping to land both archiving support and > support for moving emails off into a big object-storage engine for > archival, and just fetching them back when requested. This will allow > IMAP servers with a small amount of fast local storage to have big > archival mailboxes without needing to manually manage moving them > between machines or partitions. > > Bron. > > -- > Bron Gondwana > br...@fastmail.fm
