On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 09:26:15AM -0400, Patrick Boutilier wrote: > I didn't think changes on the replica would be reflected on the > primary, Bron can verify though. > > Are you saying that when mail older than 150 days was purged on the > replica they also got purged on the primary? Yes, that's correct - if you actually purge a message on the replica that change is replicated back to the master. The idea is that these ends can be used interchangably - and so an expunge at one end has to be mirrored at the other. > >I had this parameter as I did not want the amount of emails to get > >massive - if an email was more than 150 days old it was lost. > > > >Now I know I was not using the replica as a true "image" of the master > >in that I have in the replica's imapd.conf the following > > > >expunge_mode: delayed > >delete_mode: delayed > > > >The reason for this is that I have had instances of users misconfiguring > >POP or deleting emails and then emptying Trash and asking where is the > >email from John Citizen. > >I have had to restore whole mail folders for a few users. > > > >So I was using the replica as a emergency backup store of emails. > > > >What do you recommend ? > > > I would recommend running delayed expunge and delayed delete on the > primary as well. That way you don't have to go to the replica at all > to restore deleted e-mails. Definitely! That's the whole point of them. Bron. ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
