Re: Disable user login for a few seconds ?

2014-07-04 Thread Nick Edwards
stop mail server daemons (you DO have a backup MX I hope if you only have one mail server), rsync, (or if theres not much, sshfs and "cp -a") start mail server daemons. if this is a different machine, with new IP, hope you changed your DNS to TTL 0 - and did it at least 24 hours ago so changes ar

Re: Disable user login for a few seconds ?

2014-07-04 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 04.07.2014 11:46, schrieb Florent B: > Thank you very much Robert. > > I also had a look at "dsync" tool. But I think it handles only mails > directory, and not all user's home (my users's home contains indexes, > Maildir and sieve directories) rsync --force --delete-after --devices --specia

Re: Disable user login for a few seconds ?

2014-07-04 Thread Robert Schetterer
Am 04.07.2014 10:52, schrieb Florent B: > Hi all, > > I need to move e-mail files of my users from one file system to another. > > I use a MySQL backend on Dovecot 2.1. > > How can I do to disable temporary an account while moving files ? > > I have an "active" bit in my DB, but if I set it to