[Users] Zimbra mailbox project

[Marc Gadsdon]

> In the email announcing the project yesterday, I didn't
> elaborate much on the methods being evaluated for evacuating end user mailboxes
> from a mailbox node, but two that I'm looking at now, for automation with
> scripting, are both zmmboxmove & zmmailbox. They both use differing methods,
> where the former seems to use a rsync-like method, and the latter uses an
> export/import method. Since the intent of the project is to use existing admin
> functionality within Zimbra, along with additional helper open source utilities
> where appropriate, I don't yet know which of these offers the best match & to
> what degree these utilities remain functional when a mailbox node goes bad. I
> think this question can only be answered through additional testing.

Hi Randy,

Is zmmailbox available in FOSS - I'm unfamiliar with FOSS, so don't know. You also need to be aware of this bug https://bugzilla.zimbra.com/show_bug.cgi?id=101760 which is pretty nasty and, I think, renders zmmailbox exports unreliable.  I was just thinking that it might be that you'll be forced to leverage Network Edition features to make this project viable and in which case, you might consider the Zextras modules - in particular the migration component which may offer you more options and better performance.

Cheers,

Marc