moving mailboxes between partitions

[Andreas Piesk]

Rob Siemborski schrieb:
> I *would* be wary about running bulk renames on IMAP servers before 2.1.4.
> These locked the mailbox list for the entire duration of the rename,
> basically preventing any other operation from occuring on the server.
> 2.1.4 and higher (especially 2.1.6 and up) correct this behavior to be a
> bit less draconian about the locking, at the expense of more mailboxes.db
> transactions.

since i'm using 2.0.16 the mailbox list would be locked for a long time 
(moving 8800 mailboxes takes some time). so the best would be to take 
the server offline for this operation and running quota afterwards.

thanks to you and Aidan Evans for the help.

-ap

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