On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 03:50:40PM -0500, Patrick Goetz wrote: > On 10/12/2010 03:37 PM, Bron Gondwana wrote: > > > > The mailboxes database should be dumped before the option is changed, > > removed, and then undumped after changing the option. > > > > Which kinda sucks really. But the M I'm pasting from there is the > > imapd.conf docs. > > Where be these elusive imapd.conf docs? I just read through the > imapd.conf man page and couldn't find anything about this. man imapd.conf on my machine gets: improved_mboxlist_sort: 0 If enabled, a special comparator will be used which will correctly sort mailbox names that contain characters such as ' ' and '-'. Note that this option SHOULD NOT be changed on a live system. The mailboxes database should be dumped before the option is changed, removed, and then undumped after changing the option. > I have: > pgoetz@www:~$ ls /usr/sbin/ctl* > /usr/sbin/ctl_cyrusdb /usr/sbin/ctl_deliver /usr/sbin/ctl_mboxlist ctl_mboxlist - perform operations on the mailbox list database -d Dump the contents of the database to standard output in a portaâ ble flat-text format. NOTE: In Cyrus versions 2.2.13 and earâ lier, the dump format did not include the mailbox type flags, breaking remote mailboxes (frontends, mupdate master, unified backends) when undumped. > It doesn't look like any of these dump a database except perhaps > > ctl_cyrusdb -c > > And it's not at all clear what settings would be changed if the database > is dumped ... to a plain text file? CSV? No mention of this on the > ctl_cyrsudb man page (or where the database is archived, for that matter). "a portable flat-text format"[tm] Bron. ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/