How to determine format of .db files

Simon Matter simon.matter at ch.sauter-bc.com
Mon Sep 16 16:32:30 EDT 2002


On Monday 16 September 2002 20:42, Rob Siemborski wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Simon Matter wrote:
> > What is the best (safest) way to determine the format of the .db files in
> > a cyrus installation. I tried 'file mailboxes.db' but the result doesn't
> > make me too happy.
>
> More recent versions of cyrus include this in the response to the ID
> command, so you can just issue "ver" in cyradm.

Sorry, I didn't express myself well. I mean what is the best way to determine 
the format of existing db files. When converting db file with cvt_cyrusdb, 
one has to know the format of the source files and I want to determine this 
file format automagically.

Simon

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