upgrade from cyrus imapd 2.3.11 to 2.4.9

[Patrick Boutilier]

On 06/24/2011 04:22 PM, Bron Gondwana wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 03:32:50PM -0300, Patrick Boutilier wrote:
>> I was planning to an upgrade from 2.3.16 to 2.4.9 by just shutting
>> down Cyrus, installing new binaries, and then starting Cyrus again.
>> This worked fine in limited testing (one account).
>
> The only issue is that every first mailbox access causes an in-place
> upgrade which requires a full scan of every email, so it can hurt
> pretty bad for IO.
>
> Bron.


This is why I decided to wait until the end of the school year (next 
week) to do the upgrade. :-)