lmtp trickery

[Rudy Gevaert]

Citeren David Carter <dpc22 at cam.ac.uk>:


> On the one occasion in five years that we did end up with a Cyrus split
> brain (replication failed because of a memory DIMM error and then the
> entire master failed a few minutes later) it was easy enough to fish
> missing messages out of the dead system the following day and reinject
> them using LMTP. Certainly easier than reengineering the entire Cyrus
> mailstore to allow active/active replication.

Hi David,

I was wondering how you did that.

a) the fishing part: I don't see any way how I can map a log entry  
(message id) to a file
b) injecting through lmtp: piping messages via stdin?

Thanks!!


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Directie ICT, afd. Infrastructuur  Direction ICT, Infrastructure dept.
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