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

[Ken Murchison]

I will take look as to how/why this restriction was put into place.  At 
the very least, renaming a top-level mailbox and keeping it on the same 
partition should be allowed.


On 3/18/19 4:57 AM, Thomas Cataldo wrote:
> Well yes, the case you describe are working.
>
> As a workaround we do :
> A1 RENAME old1 new1
> A2 RENAME new1 new1 our_partition
>
> But this is bothering us as our software works as a cyrus replication 
> protocol endpoint and we don't want to receive :
> APPLY RENAME (old1 new1 partition default)
> as default is not a usual partition that our software can handle.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 9:31 AM Michael Menge 
> <michael.menge at zdv.uni-tuebingen.de 
> <mailto:michael.menge at zdv.uni-tuebingen.de>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     Quoting Sebastian Hagedorn <Hagedorn at uni-koeln.de
>     <mailto: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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