Cyrus Replication Rewrite

[ktm at rice.edu]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 04:07:00PM +0100, David Carter wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jun 2012, ktm at rice.edu wrote:
> 
> >Wow, do you have a patch for that. I would love to be able to use
> >that to upgrade from 2.3 -> 2.4. The one way Cyrus index upgrades
> >give me the willies too.
> 
> Well while you are welcome to a copy of my code, I'm not sure that I
> would recommend this approach. I solved the part of the problem that
> I needed to solve for our environment back in 2003, and then ported
> the code across so that it continued to work for us with Cyrus 2.3
> and Cyrus 2.4.
> 
> The code makes lots of assumptions about our environment (for
> example I use SSH tunnels rather than running sync_server from
> master, and all our mailstores have a single data partition) and
> hasn't been tested anywhere else. Ken rewrote large chunks of the
> code to turn it into proper Cyrus service, and Bron threw it all
> away to make something better.
> 
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Yes, I agree that that would not really work for our environment.

Regards,
Ken