Moving IMAP mails to an another server

[Scott M. Likens]

You forgot /var/imap (or it's equivilent)

Which stores the 'seen' database.

You can of course archive it and copy it over, but you'll more then
likely have to do a db_dump and try and import it.  Because it may not
be the same exact version of bdb.  If that is of course the case, you'd
have to dump/restore it.

Otherwise, live with the small price you paid.  Mark all as read, and
be happy!



On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:27:48 +0100
Balazs Pocze <banyek at zpok.hu> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> So, I had to change my old imap server for a new one, but I don't
> know how to move the imap datas.
> On the old server I do the following:
> 
> #su - cyrus -c "/usr/sbin/ctl_mboxlist -d" > /srv/backup/mboxlist (It 
> runs debian)
> 
> and then make a tar.gz backup of the /var/spool/cyrus/mail directory
> on the new computer I make the following:
> 
> #cat mboxlist | su - cyrus -c "/usr/local/cyrus/cin/ctl_mboxlist
> -u" # that restores the database
> #su - cyrus -c "/usr/local/cyrus/bin/reconstruct"   # it creates the 
> entries
> the I unpack the tar archive of the mailboxes.
> 
> (I create the users on saslbd, etc. )
> but there is my problem:
> all messages are unread, and that is not exactly what I need.
> Or I make something wrong?
> Please help me.
> 
> Best regards,
>  banyek
> 
> P.s.: Sorry for my english, it is not so good, I know, but I hope it
> is understandable ;-)
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