Move to new server

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> I want to move all mail to a new server. Old server has Cyrus 2.1.18
> (Debian Sarge), new server has Cyrus 2.2.13 (Debian Etch).
> In the past, I just copied all files in
> /var/spool/cyrus/
> /var/lib/cyrus
> But, is this a good way?

It probably works.

> Alternative is imapcopy. But I see you need a list of all users and
> passwords. That's a lot work to make (650 users). 

Or just connect as a user with administrative access.  We did a
migration with imapcopy,  no need to know all the user's passwords.

> Isn't it possible to use the admin-user to copy everything?

Yep.

-- 
Adam Tauno Williams, Network & Systems Administrator
Consultant - http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com
Developer - http://www.opengroupware.org
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