Incoming e-mail during mailbox relocation from one partition or backed to another

Andrew Morgan morgan at orst.edu
Wed Sep 29 12:40:47 EDT 2010


On Wed, 29 Sep 2010, Dmitry Ivanov wrote:

> 	Hello!
> Is it safe to relocate mailboxes from one partition or backend (in case
> of murder) to another while listening to lmtp or lmtp proxy? Is there a
> chance that relocation can fail or e-mail messages can be lost?

Yes, you can move mailboxes live.

Anyone currently connected to the mailbox via IMAP will see the mailbox 
contents disappear until they reconnect.

 	Andy


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