On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 23:51 -0400, Jorey Bump wrote: > Sarah Walters wrote: > > Benjamin, > > > >> I need to reconstruct everyone mailbox. But should I need to take > >> the mail server down? > >> or just have people close email and still allow incoming messages? > > > > Just queue the mail on your MTA (sendmail, postfix, exim, qmail, > > esoteric-server-of-your-choice). If they're not accessing the mail, it > > doesn't need to be delivered to their mailboxes anyway. So in short, > > yes, take it down. But leave your MTA up to accept mail. If you're using > > the patches to Cyrus to do recipient checking this will probably break > > though, so you might need to temporarily disable those checks and just > > accept all mail addressed to your domain whether the account exists or > > not. > > IMHO, this is worse than shutting down the MTA temporarily, which allows > mail to be queued on the sender's MTA. If the process runs within a > reasonable amount of time, you restart Cyrus, the MTA, collect/reject > mail as remote MTAs retry, and prevent becoming a backscatter source. ---- I must be a moron then because I just run reconstruct without shutting down anything. It's always seemed to work for me. Craig ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
