Upgrade and seen status

[Michael Menge]

Quoting Michael Menge <michael.menge at zdv.uni-tuebingen.de>:

> Hi,
>
> Quoting Milos Zupancic <miloszu at gmail.com>:
>
>> First i wanted to test the upgrade on a single user with a moderate amount
>> of mail.
>> I copied the mail folder, exported mailboxes.db to a text file and remove
>> no existent mailboxes and then recreate
>> mailboxes.db on the new server.
>> I also created user/*/ folders and copied .seen file to the correct folder
>>
>> Then i started master and tried it with a mail client.
>> All mail is still marked as unread.
>>
>> Did I missed a step in the upgrade ?
>
> Do the files and folders have the correct ownership and permissions?
> Do you see any errors in the cyrus logs?
>

One more question, did you keep the mailbox from the first try?
If yes, the header files would already be upgraded to new version
including the information the all emails are new.
So you have to copy the cyrus.* files again.

>>
>> Milos Zupancic
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Michael Menge <
>> michael.menge at zdv.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>
>>> Quoting Milos Zupancic <miloszu at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> We are planning to upgrade our mail server to the latest version from
>>>> 2.3.15.
>>>> The problem i'm having is how do i preserve seen status. In 2.3.15 there
>>>> is
>>>> a .seen file but i was reading that this is now all in .index file.
>>>> So when i copied all the mailboxes to a test server the seen status was
>>>> not
>>>> preserved. (all mail was unread)
>>>>
>>>> Any suggestions on how to handle this ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Milos Zupancic
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Before Cyrus 2.4.x the seen status was stored in the userid.seen files
>>> in the /<coconfigdirectory>/user directory or subfolders. Did you copy
>>> these files?
>>>
>>> Michael Menge
>>>
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