replication - correct way to transfer a mailbox?

[Edward Prendergast]

Thanks for your response Rudy.

Is this bug merely causing a cosmetic error or will this stop my transfers
from working? 

At present the system appears to be functioning normally, except for the
fact that deleted & purged messages whilst not displaying in the client
still appear in the user's mailbox on the filesystem, but I think this may
be a feature of normal behaviour.

-----Original Message-----
From: Rudy Gevaert [mailto:Rudy.Gevaert at UGent.be] 
Sent: 26 October 2007 12:08
To: Edward Prendergast
Cc: info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
Subject: Re: replication - correct way to transfer a mailbox?

Edward Prendergast wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
> Managed to solve the previous problem of errors like this:
> 
> USER received NO response
> 
> by changing the slave's imapd.conf thusly:
> 
> virtdomains: yes
> 
> to
> 
> virtdomains: userid
> 
>  
> 
> So I can now transfer users as follows:
> 
>  
> 
> /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/sync_client -v -l -u info at client.office
> 
>  
> 
> Which produces the following output:
> 
>  
> 
> Oct 26 11:33:03 chrisnux sync_client[14777]: USER info at client.office
> 
> Oct 26 11:33:03 chrisnux sync_client[14777]: USER received NO response: 
> IMAP_MAILBOX_NONEXISTENT Failed to access inbox for info at client.office: 
> Mailbox does not exist
> 
> Oct 26 11:33:03 chrisnux sync_client[14777]: ADDSUB info at client.office
INBOX
> 
>  
> 
> Is this error merely cosmetic? It appears that cyrus creates the 
> account, detects there is no mailbox then copies the mailbox across. Am 
> I understanding this correctly?
> 
>  
> 
> If not, what is the correct command to transfer the mailbox? I know I'll 
> need to use sync_client with the -m switch, but how is the specific 
> user's mailbox specified?
> 

You've hit a bug.  This is fixed in 2.3.10 :)  Now the create on the 
master triggers a create on the replica.

Rudy



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