Migrating Cyrus IMAP users to a new host

[Ezsra McDonald]

Tom,
Not sure I fully understand. What state data was 
lost?

--Ezsra

--- Tom Carroll <tcarroll at chc-chimes.com> wrote:
> Ezsra -
> 
> 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.
> 
> - Tom
> 
> On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 11:25:16AM -0700, Ezsra
> McDonald wrote:
> > I want to move my cyrus mail to a new host which
> is
> > running a newer version of cyrus imap. Is it
> possible
> > to just backup the imap accounts from the old host
> and
> > drop them on the new host after creating all of
> the
> > mail accounts? I suspect I might need to re-index
> each
> > account afterwards.
> > 
> > Is this possible? I think it would be faster and
> less
> > work than trying to do a mailbox migration with
> the
> > migration tools.
> > 
> > --Ezsra
> > 
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