Which imap command to rename a root mailbox while maintaining its partition

[Michael Menge]

Hi,

Quoting Sebastian Hagedorn <Hagedorn at uni-koeln.de>:

> Hi,
>
>> On cyrus 2.4.x we used to run
>> A1 RENAME mbox1 mbox2 our_partition
>>
>> When we run that on cyrus 3.0.8 we get :
>> A1 NO Cross-server or cross-partition move w/rename not supported
>>
>> Is there a way to do this rename with one command with cyrus3.
>> If we run A1 RENAME mbox1 mbox2
>> the mailbox is renamed as expected but it moves from our_partition to
>> default which is not what we want.
>>
>> Any suggestion ?
>
> I have no idea, because we're not far enough along in our migration  
> to Cyrus 3, but this is troubling me. We currently use RENAME  
> specifically for moving users cross-partition. If that isn't  
> supported anymore, is there a new alternative in Cyrus 3?


I have not tested this, but I think you can move cross-partition  
without rename
and rename without move cross-partition.

A1 RENAME mbox1 mbox1 our_partition
A2 RENAME mbox1 mbox2


     Michael Menge


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