migrating question

[Rob Siemborski]

On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Marco wrote:

> I am running cyrus imap 2.0.7 on a server with sasl 1.5 and berkeley db 3.x
> and we need to migrate to cyrus 2.0.19 with berkeley db 4.x and sasl 2
> is there a method to migrate all mailboxes and old mailbox db to new format
> without losing any information ?

All the relevant information for upgrading is contained in the
documentation of cyrus releases in doc/install-upgrade.html.  You may also
want to read doc/changes.html.

Of course, I wouldn't trust any version of cyrus claiming to be 2.0.19,
since the last 2.0 release was 2.0.16 (and still used SASLv1).

If you are upgrading, I'd encourage you to use a skiplist database for
your mailbox list.  The newer cyrus versions come with a "cvt_cyrusdb"
program to ease the conversion (or you can do the traditional
dump-mailboxlist, install new binaries, undump-mailboxlist method).

-Rob

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