Re: Is user lock-out required for backend xfers?

2009-03-17 Thread Wesley Craig
On 17 Mar 2009, at 11:26, Matt Selsky wrote: > Quoting Wesley Craig : >> I'm pretty sure this is because neither the frontends nor the clients >> are able to intelligently handle the kinds of transient errors that >> are returned. Frontend improvements might be possible. Client >> improvements ar

Re: Is user lock-out required for backend xfers?

2009-03-17 Thread Matt Selsky
Quoting Wesley Craig : > I'm pretty sure this is because neither the frontends nor the clients > are able to intelligently handle the kinds of transient errors that > are returned. Frontend improvements might be possible. Client > improvements are Sisyphean. What could the frontends do that wou

Re: Is user lock-out required for backend xfers?

2009-03-14 Thread Wil Cooley
Thanks everyone; I'm not sure where I got that idea. Wil -- Wil Cooley signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature 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.htm

Re: Is user lock-out required for backend xfers?

2009-03-13 Thread Wesley Craig
On 12 Mar 2009, at 13:03, Dave McMurtrie wrote: > You should not need to do anything to prevent client access to a > mailbox > when it's being moved and there should never be any resulting > corruption. Cyrus locks the mailbox while it's being moved. And any result different from the above shou

Re: Is user lock-out required for backend xfers?

2009-03-12 Thread Dave McMurtrie
Andrew Morgan wrote: > On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Wil Cooley wrote: > >> Somewhere I read (or thought I read) that it was important to ensure >> that a user was not logged in when his mailbox was transferred between >> backends in a Murder setup, otherwise there was a risk of mailbox >> corruption. Is t

Re: Is user lock-out required for backend xfers?

2009-03-12 Thread Andrew Morgan
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Wil Cooley wrote: > Somewhere I read (or thought I read) that it was important to ensure > that a user was not logged in when his mailbox was transferred between > backends in a Murder setup, otherwise there was a risk of mailbox > corruption. Is this true or have I been readi

Is user lock-out required for backend xfers?

2009-03-11 Thread Wil Cooley
Somewhere I read (or thought I read) that it was important to ensure that a user was not logged in when his mailbox was transferred between backends in a Murder setup, otherwise there was a risk of mailbox corruption. Is this true or have I been reading the tabloids again? Context: I have several