Craig White wrote: > 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 Hmmm yes, I want to second that. I have often restored accidentally deleted mail folders from tape, copied them back into the mailbox structure and reconstructed the folder. I never had any issue with that... Does anybody really know any drawback of reconstructing without downtime? Best, Daniel ---- 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
