Final words on the upgrade: Moving the mailboxes in the /var/spool/mail/ gave something that couldn't be opened. Running /usr/sbin/cyrreconstruct -r user.* on /var/spool/mail/ gave me openable mailboxes, but the read marks were gone (probably the .seen databases took an early beating in this process. I made a backup, but probably not early enough). Losing the seen marks is something I'm used to. It happened when I transitioned from 1.5.x to 2.1.x back in 2002, and has happened two or three times during my 2.1 days (which eventually led me to convert from BDB to skiplists, and I haven't had any problems with it upp until now). Soooo... I'll bite the bullet like I did the other times and reconstruct the .seen marks, as near as I can. Come tuesday my email server has been out of service for a week. The lesson for next upgrade (that is not a 2.2.x upgrade, which I let apt-get deal with), is to make a complete copy of /var/lib/cyrus and /var/spool/cyrus before even Starting (USB HDs are cheap these days...), and then to convert mailboxes.db and the .seen databases to flat text files before uninstalling the previous version (are there others I need to transfer?). This is just a precaution. With all significant databases as skiplists, I don't think this step is neccessary anymore. But it doesn't hurt to make sure. ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
