Am 29.02.2012 12:47, schrieb Bron Gondwana: > Make sure you get /var/imap or wherever the DB files are stored as > well, /var/spool/imap is just the emails - you want to keep the > indexes! Afai understand this would mean these 3 dirs: configdirectory: /var/lib/imap partition-default: /var/spool/imap sievedir: /var/lib/sieve ? > Your biggest risk is berkeley DB files. If you are using berkeley, > either convert to skiplist first, or dump and restore. sigh ... I don't even *know* if I use berkeley. I suspect, yes, I see db-files in /var/lib/imap: # ls /var/lib/imap annotations.db db db.backup2 deliverdb mailboxes.db [...] Is the conversion hard to do? What do you recommend? > Beware of mailbox sort order issues if you change that config. You talk of the sort order in the mail-clients view? >>> I am thinking about just trying it for a test, but I would really >>> feel much better with some competent feedback from the >>> cyrus-imap-community. > > Trying is good :) The upgrade itself should be clean, if slow - lots > of re-parsing of emails. I looked into avoiding that, but it just > made the code really, really ugly as it tried to deal with different > versions of the index - so we decided to force the upgrade on first > access. If things work out, I don't have a problem with some time spent. I prefer slow over flaky ... Thanks for helping, Stefan ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
