Hi all, I am preparing to upgrade our production server's operating system, which will also entail replacing Cyrus and SASL with newer, updated versions. I don't have the luxury of installing the upgrades on a new machine and then swapping it with the old one. Rather, I have to reinstall the operating system with the newer one and hope that the data (mail files, personal data, etc, which will be backed up in preparation for the upgrade) will cleanly migrate to the new OS installation. My question is, do I need to do anything special to make this upgrade possible (tips, tricks, advice to avoid problems)? Here are my specs: Old OS: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 (EM64T) New OS: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (EM64T) Old Cyrus IMAP: 2.2.3 (SLES 9) New Cyrus IMAP: 2.2.12 (SLES 10) Old Cyrus SASL: 2.1.18 (SLES 9) New Cyrus SASL: 2.1.21 (SLES 10) Old Postfix: 2.1.1 (SLES 9) New Postfix: 2.2.9 (SLES 10) I am doing virtual domains. I am using /etc/sasldb2 as my authentication source. Here is my imapd.conf: configdirectory: /var/lib/imap partition-default: /var/spool/imap sievedir: /var/lib/sieve admins: cyrus allowanonymouslogin: no virtdomains: userid loginrealms: domain1.com domain2.com doamin3.com lmtp_downcase_rcpt: 1 autocreatequota: 10000 reject8bit: no quotawarn: 90 timeout: 30 poptimeout: 10 dracinterval: 0 drachost: localhost allowplaintext: yes sasl_pwcheck_method: auxprop sasl_mech_list: PLAIN LOGIN CRAM-MD5 lmtp_overquota_perm_failure: no unixhierarchysep: yes altnamespace: yes quotawarnkb: 5120 I have the common Postfix + SpamAssassin + ClamAV + avavisd-new, where mail is finally delivered to Cyrus IMAP (after it passes all checks) via LMTP over localhost. I can't imagine Cyrus has changed the way it accepts mail over LMTP (especially localhost connections), but who knows. The fact is, I'm no newbie to Linux, but mail is something I still struggle with a bit, especially Cyrus and SASL (configuring authentication has been my biggest difficulty). However, we have been using Cyrus thus far (with absolutely no problems) for over a year on SLES 9, and have been very pleased with the performance and robustness that we have observed. If I copy my config files over, and copy my current spool structure (Cyrus partition) and the mail db files, is all of the email content going to migrate, or am I going to have to fiddle with it to make it work? Anyhow, do any of you have some advice on migration of the server data? Any tips or tricks to ensure things work without running into snags? It is a production server, so I want to do all that I can to ensure everything works like it is supposed to. Thanks in advance for assistance. ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
