Keep two IMAP servers in Sync

Paul Oldham paul at the-hug.org
Thu Nov 6 17:46:18 CET 2008


On Thu, November 6, 2008 16:22, Longman said:

> What's the easiest way to have two IMAP servers with an identical set of
> email on each?
>
> imapsync ? rsync ? neither?
>
> Basically I'd like to have a central IMAP server accessible via the net
> but sadly I have to go with it being a box on the internal net (due to
> bandwidth and disk space reasons). This is fine for 99% of the time but
> if we need to move to another building (in case of fire) I'd need a
> duplicate box at the other location with all the email (unless I stick
> the box in the boot of a car which isn't a viable option!).
>
> What would be a good way of solving this kind of prob?

Which IMAP server are you using? For example rsync won't work so well with
Cyrus if the server is running at the same time but should with Courier
...
-- 
Paul




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