Migration of cyrus mailboxes : almost working but... !

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 09:39 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 17:28 +0100, Denis BUCHER wrote:
> > Dear all,
> > 
> > We will soon migrate from one server to another. To migrate users I
> > simply tried to copy files from one server to the other, and then I did a :
> > > /usr/sbin/cyrreconstruct -r user.test2009
> > 
> > But the problem is that all emails are marked as unread !
> > 
> > Does someone knows how to copy+use (maybe without rebuild ?) a mailbox
> > using this method ?
> > 
> > Thanks a lot in advance for any advice...
> ----
> you need to also copy the 'users' sub/seen files which on my Red
> Hat/CentOS installations are located in /var/lib/imap/user directory
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I should have mentioned though perhaps this is now obvious but you might
also consider copying the user sieve scripts and quota which should also
be in the same folders

Craig


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