How can I restore the "\Seen" state from backup?

[Scott Russell]

Patrick T. Tsang wrote:
> As long as I know, cyrus imapd comes with no solution of keeping user
> mail status.
> I tested to copy all /var/lib/imap files to the target server and do
> mail reconstruct, it worked but it is not practical since I have to
> shut down the cyrus server.

As far as I know you do NOT have to shut down the server when running
reconstruct. Has this changed in recent versions? Am I missing
something, is there some other reason why you shut down the server?

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Scott Russell <lnxgeek at us.ibm.com>
IBM Linux Technology Center, System Admin