xfer problems between 2.3.15 and 2.4.17

[Gavin Gray]

yes it looks like for some reason the mupdate procedure that happens within the murder upon folder creation is getting held up for some reason with regard to the 2.4 frontend. but we don't know why or how to correct it.

thanks for getting back to us,

Quoting Andrew Morgan <morgan at orst.edu> on Thu, 5 Jun 2014 11:02:11 -0700 (PDT):

> On Thu, 5 Jun 2014, gavin.gray at ed.ac.uk wrote:
>
>> As you may be aware we are attempting this and have run into various
>> problems.
>>
>> Currently we have a mixed murder of 2.3.15 backends and 2.4.17 backends.
>> We are now fairly confident that we can xfer accounts succesfully between
>> these backends. The problems we had appear to have been with a very small
>> number of accounts on our older backends that had corrupt cyrus.index
>> files.
>>
>> However we are now having trouble configuring frontends that will work
>> with this mixed murder environment while we xfer our users accross.
>>
>> If we use our existing 2.3.15 frontends then users have who have been
>> migrated lose the ability to see other accounts in the "Other Users" name
>> space.
>>
>> On the other hand if we introduce 2.4.17 frontends then we see strange
>> behaviour around folder creation. Clients can create the folders but
>> autosubscription fails with the client being told the new folder doesn't
>> exist. If one waits a minute or two one can manually subscribe to the
>> folder.
>
> This is tickling my memory, but I can't recall exactly what it was.  
> I remember running into a problem like this as well.  Something about 
> the frontend's mailbox database not being updated in a timely 
> fashion...
>
>> So far we have not upgraded the mupdate master. Is this a mistake?
>>
>> In terms of the frontend config we have added
>>
>> suppress_capabilities: ESEARCH QRESYNC WITHIN XLIST LIST-EXTENDED
>>
>> to the 2.4.17 frontends, otherwise the config is identical to our 2.3.15
>> frontends. Is there any other config changes we should be aware of?
>
> I used the following when I upgraded from 2.3 to 2.4:
>
>   suppress_capabilities: ESEARCH LIST-EXTENDED QRESYNC WITHIN XLIST 
> ENABLE SORT=DISPLAY
>
> There was a thread I started back in October 2011 with the subject 
> "2.3 to 2.4 Murder upgrade" where I ran through the upgrade and the 
> workarounds I had to make.
>
>         Andy
>
>

  

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