migrating mails between two cyrus servers keeping seen states

[Michael Menge]

Hi,


Quoting Marcus Schopen via Info-cyrus <info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>:

> Hi,
>
> I'm planning to move some mailboxes from a cyrus server (2.1.18 - which
> is a kind of mail archive) to another one (2.4.17+caldav~beta9-3).
> Playing around on a test system with copying a user's mailbox and doing
> a following "reconstruct -r" came out with a mailbox without seen states
> on read mails on the new system; all mails unread. Normally I move
> mailboxes using imapsync to keep states etc., but on a number of really
> large mailboxes the initial sync takes days. Any other suggestions than
> (slow) imapsync tools?
>
Befor 2.4.x the seen information was stored in extra files in /var/imap/user
Did you copy these files too?


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