Migrating Cyrus IMAP users to a new host

[Rob Siemborski]

On Tue, 27 May 2003, Tom Carroll wrote:

> I performed the method as you suggested.  Only one problem: the Berkeley
> db incompatibilities (db3 to db4).  This forced me to use reconstruct to
> update the indexes.  Some state information was lost that aggravated the
> users (users maintain > 700 MB in their inboxes), but
> beyond that, everything appears fine.  Mind you, my upgrade was minor:
> 2.1.9 to 2.1.12.

It shouldn't have.  The index files aren't kept in cyrusdb format.

It may have forced you to rebuild the mailbox list (doesn't Berkeley DB
provide an upgrade utility for this sort of thing?)

-Rob

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