[Dovecot] Thunderbird Archive to slower storage - sort of alternate storage

Marcio Merlone marcio.merlone at a1.ind.br
Tue Mar 13 20:58:59 EET 2012


Em 13-03-2012 13:49, Timo Sirainen escreveu:
> On 13.3.2012, at 16.36, Marcio Merlone wrote:
>> It works, given that the files are not locked. I could restart dovecot before so it would unlock the files, but there is no guarantee it does not get locked again before the find finishes.
> I'm not sure what you mean by locks.
Operating system lock of open files (lsof).

>> A perfectly working solution would be to (upgrade to v2.x and) switch 
>> to sdbox or mdbox format with alt storage enabled, then you could 
>> simply do: doveadm altmove -A mailbox 'Archives*' all 
Sounds really nice. There are no 2.0 packages for Lucid tough, so will 
take a look at the latest stable Ubuntu, or perhaps give the beta a try 
(until it comes stable).

Thanks for your prompt reply. :)

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*Marcio Merlone*


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