[Kolab-devel] IMAP replication

[Andreas Hasenack]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 04:48:14AM -0700, Andrew J. Kopciuch wrote:
> Hi :
> 
> I've been looking into a replication setup for Kolab.  I have master / slave 
> server working fine.  This replicates the LDAP data perfectly.  I am 
> wondering what to do about the IMAP data.
> 
> I have read through some of the mail archives, and there was a discussion 
> about Cyrus Murder.  What I gathered from the thread, was that IMAP mailboxes 
> were not replicated due to network performance.
> 
> I'm not looking to do remote replication this way.  I have the servers with a 
> gigabit crossover directly connected.  Is setting up Kolab's imapd to use 
> Murder a possibility?  This would involve rebuilding the imapd package to 
> enable murder correct?  It's not in the default packages.  I see the options 
> in the config files commented out, but nothing in the obmtool.conf to build 
> for it.
> 
> There was mentions of other IMAP synchronization methods, but what I have 
> found on the internet doesn't seem to be the solution.  I just don't know 
> where to continue my research on this.

Murder is not replication, it's a way to allocate mailboxes on different
servers basically.

cyrus-imapd-2.3.x, however, has replication support, although it may be
a bit buggy in this early stages (I haven't tested it yet myself).