From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 9 03:30:13 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FABA16A400 for ; Sun, 9 Apr 2006 03:30:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09F3943D45 for ; Sun, 9 Apr 2006 03:30:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C284D62C946; Sun, 9 Apr 2006 00:30:09 -0300 (ADT) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 7gEkAW6MSAL6; Sun, 9 Apr 2006 00:30:09 -0300 (ADT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-222-82-85.eastlink.ca [24.222.82.85]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53E3462C943; Sun, 9 Apr 2006 00:30:09 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1CCE93C74D; Sun, 9 Apr 2006 00:30:08 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BEB03C676; Sun, 9 Apr 2006 00:30:08 -0300 (ADT) Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 00:30:08 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Bill Moran In-Reply-To: <20060408074034.200f77a1.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> Message-ID: <20060409002843.B1096@ganymede.hub.org> References: <443731E5.9030209@greenmeadow.ca> <20060408074034.200f77a1.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Duane Whitty , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT - Scalable email server solution needed X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2006 03:30:13 -0000 On Sat, 8 Apr 2006, Bill Moran wrote: > One advantage of Maildir over mbox and the Cyrus db (that, for some > reason, I seldom see touted) is that you can make a safe backup of a > Maildir without shutting down the SMTP, POP, or IMAP server. With both > mbox and the Cyrus mail system, you have to shut the mail system down to > back up the mail boxes. Why with Cyrus IMAPd? I just had a major hardware failure, had to restore 30 mail spools from backup, all of which were 'backed up live', and the only thing I had to do once restored was run the 'reconstruct' command to make sure the various databases were sync'd up ... and the reconstruct command can be run while the system is live too ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664