On Monday 09 December 2002 06:37 pm, 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.
You might also want to consider using the perdition IMAP/Pop3 proxy. It's well suited for something like this since it can use LDAP, MySQL, PostreSQL, and local GDBM databases to lookup the real server for users. http://www.vergenet.net/linux/perdition/ Cheers, Jeremy