[Dovecot] Cyrus to Dovecot migration (OS X Server): Backup + restore messages, live "standby server" and delayed expunge and…

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 11:28 +0200, Thomas von Eyben wrote:

> RESTORE:
> dovecot is designed better and will "automatically" recognised
> the restored messages without the need to reconstruct any databases or
> stopping+restarting the service.
> Is this really true ,-)?

Yes.

> DELAYED DELETION OF MESSAGES
> I believe that the feature is called "delayed expunge", a way of not
> deleting the messages until after an additional delay from the time
> the user deletes the message. Is this possible in dovecot?

There's a lazy_expunge plugin:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Lazyexpunge

> DOCUMENTATION
> Where would the best FAQ/KB for getting to know dovecot better be,
> perhaps there have even been written good books (I know old fashioned,
> but I really like the physical hands on a real book provides ;-)

There's the wiki of course, but other than that I don't know really. I'm
not aware of any Dovecot books (although one is being started I think).