Moving Cyrus-imapd to new server

[Simon Matter]

>
> -On jeudi 14 avril 2005 19:19 +0200 Sasa Stupar
> <sasa at stupar.homelinux.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I am using Cyrus-imapd on FC3. Now I need to change the server so I will
>> move all users to a new server. What should I do to move all accounts,
>> messages, etc for cyrus-imapd to a new server which will also run on
>> FC3?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Sasa
>
>
> OK, I have done backup of /Var/lib/imap and /var/spool/imap dir's, then I
> have copied these dir's to a new server, make sure everything is owned by
> cyrus user and then start cyrus-imapd. The problem is that when connected
> with an imap client I can see the headers of the messages but not the
> bodies - they are all blank. I have tried with reconstruct but after I ran
> it I loose even the headers from the messages.
> What am I doing wrong here?

I don't know what is wrong with you setup. What I know is that you have to
transfer

/etc/cyrus.conf
/etc/imapd.conf
/var/lib/imap
/var/spool/imap

to the new box and it works. How did you transfer?

Simon


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