On 01/16/2015 07:02 PM, Patrick Goetz wrote:
That's it! Thanks for the heads up!  I assumed that all the spool hash
options only applied when you actually have more than one partition,
which I don't.

Unfortunately this is going to complicate my ability to use the
excellent migration plan outlined by Nic Berstein on 2014-12-19.
mailboxes.db will know about the spool files in their old, hashed
location, which I'd like to get rid of, since all the mail resides on
one physical partition anyway, so having it set up this way just adds
unnecessary directory structures.  I might end up having to use imapsync
after all.

mailboxes.db doesn't know about the hash so if you migrate to a new server, put all mail in /srv/cyrus/user , and then use "hashimapspool: 0" it should work. In other words if you made the change on your existing 2.3.16 server and restarted Cyrus it would start looking in /home/cyrus/mail/user for all mail and give nothing but I/O Errors as the mail would not be there.






On 01/16/2015 03:04 PM, Patrick Boutilier wrote:
On 01/16/2015 04:57 PM, Patrick Goetz wrote:
I have a couple of existing cyrus 2.3.16 installs with this partitioning
configuration in imapd.conf:

     defaultpartition: default
     partition-default: /home/cyrus/mail

I create users using cyradm:  cm user.myuser

and the user mail spool folder has this heirarchy:

     mail
       |
         a
         |---- user
                 |---- auser1
                 |---- auser2
                 |---- auser3
                ...
         b
         |---- user
                 |---- buser1
                 |---- buser2
                ...
         c
         d
        ...
         x
         y
         z
         stage.


I just assumed that this structure was built in to cyrus; however on my
new 2.4.17 install the partition settings in imapd.conf are similar:

     defaultpartition: default
     partition-default: /srv/cyrus
     unixhierarchysep: yes   <--- (now using this)


however all newly created users (cyradm:  cm user/myuser) are dumped
into a single folder:

     cyrus
       |
         user
           |---- myuser
           |---- otheruser
           |---- thirduser
          ...


I simply can't find any difference in the configuration files that
result in this discrepancy.  Was the [a-z] partitioning in the 2.3.16
install baked in to the Debian cyrus package I used, say in cyradm?


Sounds like you have hashimapspool enabled in the 2.3.16 installs.



hashimapspool: 0
              If  enabled,  the partitions will also be hashed, in
addition to the hashing done on configuration directories.  This is
recommended if one partition has a very bushy mailbox tree.



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