Re: Perdition and mass migration

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 09:35:25AM +0100, Jonathan Gilpin wrote:
> >>>> 
> >>> As it stands perdition only connects to one real-server.
> >>> If more than one real-server is supplied using the outgoing_server
> >>> option then those real servers are tried in order. Though
> >>> there is a (very simple) round-robin algorithm that selects which
> >>> one to try first.
> >>> 
> >>> Could you describe in a little more detail what you need to achieve
> >>> with two mailboxes? It may be possible to enhance perdition in order
> >>> to meet your needs.
> >>> 
> >> As I said before, I am about to start a mass migration of thousands 
> >> accounts (pop3)
> >> that might take a really long time.
> > 
> > Understood.
> > 
> >> Before knowing Perdition, my plan was to write a pop3 proxy (have done
> >> that in the past) that monitors if an account has been transferred or not
> >> and points to the right server (new/old).
> > 
> > I have made some one-off customisations to perdition in the past
> > to do things like this. If you are interested I'd be happy
> > to talk over what something that does this in a generic way
> > that could be merged into the main code might look like.
> 
> This is exactly what I need to do too... I need to migrate accounts from
> one mail system to another system.  So I need to be able to say.. this
> email login is on this server while this is on another and then update
> the table when the account has been moved..
> 
> Are those customisations available to use?

I think that should be possible.
I just need to distil the changes out (as a patch against 1.17).

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