Cyrus - Upgrading flat mail to DB3

[Matthew Tagg]

> I am confused. :-) The instructions below are what you need 
> to upgrade 
> your mail store from 1.6.22 to be compatible with Cyrus 2.1.x 
> (assuming 
> you didn't use --with-mboxlist-db=flat when running configure).

Ahh, ok its starting to all make sense. Sorry I was the confused one. I
thought it upgraded my flat msg files to increase performance. Though I
see its only the .seen and mailbox list. 

> Basically all you need to do is copy over /var/imap and 
> /var/spool/imap 
> (or wherever your config and partition directories are in 
> 1.6.22) from 
> your 1.6.22 server (after shutting down Cyrus) and run the following 
> commands on the new box:
> 
> 
> mkdir /var/imap/db
> mkdir /var/imap/socket
> chown cyrus /var/imap/db /var/imap/socket
> rm -rf /var/imap/deliverdb
> 
> su cyrus
> cd /var/imap
> ctl_mboxlist -u < mailboxes
> ctl_cyrusdb -c
> 

Kewl ok thanks for the help! Just busy downloading 2.1.8..