Moving to folders stored in different servers

[Fabio S. Schmidt]

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 <brong at 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.
>
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>   Bron Gondwana
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