Upgrade and seen status

[Milos Zupancic]

Yes !!

Working perfectly.
I had to copy the cyrus.* files in the users mailbox over again and then the
upgrade went on smoothly.

Thank you all.

Milos Zupancic

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Michael Menge <
michael.menge at zdv.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:

> 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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>
>
>
>
>
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