Cyrus - Upgrading flat mail to DB3

[Matthew Tagg]

Yes I've read the install upgrade. The problem is its not a straight
upgrade as such. I just want to upgrade my mail store. Two separate
installs on two different machines.

FWIW I followed the instructions that I could. Thanks anyway

>  From the doc/text/install-upgrade file:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Upgrading from 1.6.22 or 1.6.24
> 
>      Warning: Cyrus imapd 2.0 will automatically convert on-disk file
>      formats as the server is used. It is not possible to run 
> 1.6 after 2.0
>      has been used on a mail spool without reconstructing 
> every mailbox.
> 
>        * Create some extra directories and remove the 
> duplicate delivery
>          database:
> 
>             mkdir /var/imap/db
>             mkdir /var/imap/socket
>             chown cyrus /var/imap/db /var/imap/socket
>             rm -rf /var/imap/deliverdb
> 
>        * Convert mailboxes file to Berkeley DB:
> 
>             su cyrus
>             cd /var/imap
>             ctl_mboxlist -u < mailboxes
>             ctl_cyrusdb -c
> 
>          Please keep a backup of your mailboxes file. You can dump an
>          old-style mailboxes file by using ctl_mboxlist -d.
>        * remove "/etc/inetd.conf" entries. The imap and 
> popd3d lines need to
>          be removed from /etc/inetd.conf and inetd needs to 
> be restarted.
>        * master process configuration: You'll need to 
> configure the master
>          process Cyrus process and ensure that it starts on 
> boot. see this
>          section of the configuration instructions.
>        * MTA configuration. You will have to reconfigure your 
> MTA to speak
>          to lmtpd. See this section of the configuration document.
>        * cyrus.seen conversion. The cyrus.seen file will be 
> automatically
>          upgraded as users read mail. After some time, you 
> might want to
>          delete the cyrus.seen file in each mailbox; it is 
> superceded by the
>          user/joe.seen file.
>        * cyrus.index conversion. The cyrus.index file will be 
> automatically
>          upgraded the first time each mailbox is SELECTed.
>        * Netnews conversion. The netnews programs are no 
> longer built. If
>          you are using netnews, you will need to apply the diff in the
>          netnews/ directory to INN or see if INN is now 
> distributing those
>          changes. You will also want to run remotepurge on a 
> regular basis
>          to purge old netnews posts.
> 
> 
> 
> Matthew Tagg wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have installed a clean install of Cyrus 2.1.7.
> > I want to transfer my mail from Cyrus 1.6.22 (sitting on another
> > server).
> > 
> > I tried copying over the raw files ../user/test/ etc. However I
> > noticed version 2 stores them in alpabetic directories. I tried
> > putting them in the root of /var/lib/imap/user/ and in
> > /var/lib/imap/user/t - however it doesnt find them
> > 
> > From the install help doc: "Warning:  Cyrus imapd 2.0 will
> > automatically convert on-disk file formats as the server is 
> used. " -
> > I wish it would.
> > 
> > Then I discovered something called "cvt_cyrusdb" which is meant to
> > allow converting between backends but I dont know what to 
> give for its
> > parameters.
> > 
> > I tried:
> > 	bash-2.05a$ /usr/libexec/cyrus/cvt_cyrusdb
> > 	/var/lib/imap/user/webafrica/ flat db3 /var/lib/imap/db/
> > 
> > 	Sorry, you cannot use this tool with relative path names.
> > 	This is because some database backends (mainly db3) do not
> > 	always do what you would expect with them.
> > 
> > 	Please use absolute pathnames instead.
> > 
> > Surely this is a commong problem? Anyone had success?
> > 
> > Thanks for any help
> > matthew
> > 
> 
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