On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, John A. Tamplin wrote: > No, logins to it will have to be the user who is accessing their mailboxes. > Once the client logs into the proxy, isn't that same login information passed > onto the backend server?
No, the IMAP proxies use a "superuser" account to auth to the backends. It's not quite an IMAP admin, but its pretty close. This is because mechanisms such as KERBEROS_V4 and GSSAPI make passing credentials hard. > > Do you really have so much data that it would take 2-3 days to move it? > > The tests I have done so far (using both imap-utils mbxcvt and custom perl code) > it looks like it will take around 60 hours to convert everything (2300 users, > 23000 folders, 70G total), and that is putting /var/imap on a tmpfs filesystem > for the conversion (about a 2x speed improvement there) and striping /cyrus > across 14 drives in an FC-AL array. Perhaps you'd be better off using Perdition or another IMAP proxy to do the move, since the murder is really trying to solve a slightly different problem. -Rob -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Rob Siemborski * Andrew Systems Group * Cyert Hall 207 * 412-268-7456 Research Systems Programmer * /usr/contributed Gatekeeper