move mailboxes and mark email as "read"

[Patrick Boutilier]

On 11/19/2009 11:06 AM, Thomas Vogt wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'll move several thousand cyrus mailboxes to a new server. Old Server was running cyrus imapd 2.2, new server runs cyrus imapd 2.3.
>
> The task seems pretty trivial. I tar all users starting with A (later b,c,d..), create all mailboxes on the new server with cyradm (script), extract the tar file, reconstruct all mailboxes.
>

Why bother with the reconstruct? If you have pristine copies of the 
metadata you should be fine and seen state will be intact.



> The only problemI have, is "seen.db". On my new server, every email is marked as new, unread email. Is there a way to fix this?
>
> Regards,
> Thomas Vogt
>
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