does xfer require murder?

[Ken Murchison]

Perry Brown wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> We are running cyrus-imap 2.2.8 and sasl 2.1.15. We have two RHEL 3 
> servers with about 4800 users split between them.
> 
> I am looking to migrate the users to 2 new RHEL3 hosts with the same 
> cyrus-imap and sasl versions. I added the allowusermoves to imapd.conf 
> restarted cyrus and tried to do a test move.
> 
> 
> host1.domain.com> xfer user/ host2.domain.com
> xfermailbox: Mailbox does not exist
> 
> 
> Both cyrus-imap and cyrus-sasl where compiled with --enable-murder 
> (least that is what my notes say is there a way to verify?), but it 
> looks like murder has not been set up with a master or imapd.conf file 
> changes.
> 
> Question, Is it possible to xfer a mailbox without configuring murder?

Yes and no.  You don't need mupdate, but the backends need to know how 
to authenticate to each other.  Look at install-murder.html and take a 
look at the stuff regarding authentication.  Also note that you can't 
XFER the entire user/ hierarchy with one command, you have to do it one 
user at a time.  Assuming that you're using unixhierachysep, you would do:

xfer user/vbperry host2


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Kenneth Murchison
Systems Programmer
Project Cyrus Developer/Maintainer
Carnegie Mellon University