Paul J Stevens wrote on 2004-11-28 17:29:
Although dbmail is hardly optimized for such tools as they rely heavily
on imap searching, you might check out offlineimap, which is a robust
imap sync tool.
But this really is a flawed approach wrt dbmail. Using imap to sync
dbmail storages is a highly convoluted approach to database replication.
Because that's what is really is; you'd be using imap to replicate the
database. Yek.
Darn... I was trying to simplify the situation. which now makes
it sound as if I have a hidden agenda :-) Aad, the funny thing
is, on the cafe of it, I do have a hidden agenda ;-) it's just
that I kept it in order not to complicate things.
You see, in a prev post to this list I mentioned my intentions
of using DBMail as a statistical activity reporting tool (our
people want something like this, for moniotoring purposes).
So, instead of 2 DBMail boxes, I will have one Cyrus box (which
the users will connect to), and a DBMail box which will only be
used for statistical analysis and archive purposes. DBMail is
perfectly suited for that purpose; it saves me a lot of coding.
This is why any replication at the level of filesystem, or
data storage (DB) is no good for me.
I'll read about offlineimap; its name sounds interesting.
I wonder if its per-user basis thing or full-server stuff.
I'll find out in a few minutes. Maybe I should write this
later, but..
Cheers,
Ray
