Basic question about Cyrus replication

Shuvam Misra shuvam.misra at merceworld.com
Tue Sep 7 01:27:23 EDT 2010


> >When I set up a master and a replica server, does the replica server
> >listen on the IMAP port too, and can it handle IMAP queries while it is
> >receiving sync logs for rolling replication?
> 
> No, the replica only listens on the sync server port.  The replica
> should not listen on the IMAP port and should not accept client
> queries.

Thanks. Clarified my most basic question.

How do I prevent the replica server from listening on the imap port? Do
I do this by not running imapd (from cyrus.conf)? If yes, then I guess
the same needs to be done for POP3 and NNTP too, right?

Shuvam


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