storing mail across several cyrus partitions

[Bokhan Artem]

Sorry, I didn't understand you clearly...
Did you mean, that subfolders of single user may be moved across partitions?

David Carter ?????:
> On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Artem Bokhan wrote:
> 
>> Partition or sub-partition -- no matter. The purpose -- to store the 
>> mail of a single user accross different storages.
> 
> Yes, you can do this. /etc/imapd.conf:
> 
>   partition-default: /spool/cyrus/mailstore
>   partition-test: /spool/cyrus/test/data
>   metapartition-test: /spool/cyrus/test/meta
>   partition-test2: /spool/cyrus/test2/data
>   metapartition-test2: /spool/cyrus/test2/meta
>   partition-test3: /spool/cyrus/test3/data
>   metapartition-test3: /spool/cyrus/test3/meta
> 
> Raw IMAP as a cyrus admin user (simply because it gives more feedback 
> than the cyradm rename command), using the optional third argument to 
> rename.
> 
> Start out with three mailboxes on default partition:
> 
>   . LIST "user/dpc22" *
>   * LIST (\HasChildren) "/" "user/dpc22"
>   * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "user/dpc22/bar"
>   * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "user/dpc22/foo"
>   . OK Completed (0.000 secs 4 calls)
> 
> Move user/dpc22/foo and user/dpc22/bar to test2 and test3:
> 
>   . RENAME user/dpc22/foo user/dpc22/foo test2
>   * OK rename user/dpc22/foo user/dpc22/foo
>   . OK Completed
> 
>   . RENAME user/dpc22/bar user/dpc22/bar test3
>   * OK rename user/dpc22/bar user/dpc22/bar
>   . OK Completed
> 
> The only gotcha is that each rename moves all subsidiary mailboxes:
> 
>   . RENAME user/dpc22 user/dpc22 default
>   * OK rename user/dpc22 user/dpc22
>   * OK rename user/dpc22/bar user/dpc22/bar
>   * OK rename user/dpc22/foo user/dpc22/foo
>   . OK Completed
>