Restoring Mailboxes

[Andrew Morgan]

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Dr. Harry Knitter wrote:

> Could you please give me a hint what you mean with configdirectory?
> In my case (SuSE 10.0 as well as 9.2) I found a subdirectory db
> in /var/lib/imap the directory where the database seems to be located.
> There is a directory deliverdb with a subdirectory db in the same place.
> As having copied the whole directory /var/lib/imap including subdirectories
> from the old installation to the new one I cant´t imagine that these old
> directories are the cause of a changed Berkeley DB version.

In your /etc/imapd.conf, something like:

# Configuration directory
configdirectory: /var/spool/cyrus/config


The "db" subdirectory under the configdirectory holds some transaction log 
type stuff.  I've had trouble in the past with changing versions unless I 
clean out that directory first.

 	Andy