Move to new server

[Bron Gondwana]

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:13:38 +0100, "Paul van der Vlis" <paul at vandervlis.nl> said:
> Adam Tauno Williams schreef:
> >> 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.
> 
> That's true, but maybe I keep old database-formats ?
> 
> >> 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.
> 
> Nice to hear, thanks!
> 
> Can I use something like this in ImapCopy.cfg ?
> 
> #############################
> # List of users and passwords
> #############################
> #       SourceUser    SourcePassword   DestinationUser DestinationPw
> Copy    "cyrus"       "cyruspw"        "cyrus"         "cyruspw"

Does this copy all seen information as well?  Seen is per-user in Cyrus,
so you won't see it if the admin user does the copying.

(and I hate losing seen information!)

Bron ( yes, I do have an alternative to suggest )
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