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From: Sean (no email)
Date: Wed Mar 02 2005 - 15:55:21 EST
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> Sean wrote:
> > I've built new mail server and migrated over my mailboxes. When I access
> > my mailbox on the new machine all of the messages show up as unread.
> > Is there a was to preserve the message flags?
>
> If you simply copy mailboxes over, than flags will be lost. The only
> way to preserve them when migration is done this way is if both servers
> are running same implementation of IMAP daemon (uw-imapd to uw-imapd, or
> cyrus to cyrus). If you are doing cyrus to cyrus migration, you should
> also copy database files where flags are stored.
Thanks for the input. I am doing a cyrus to cyrus migration and I just
copied /var/spool/imap and not the db files.
I'll give it another go.
-Sean
> Would be nice if there was a tool that is able to read Berkeley style
> mailboxes, parse them for uw-imapd headers used for storing flags, and
> creates Cyrus database based on that information.
>
> If you are migrating from different IMAP server (for example uw-imapd to
> cyrus), one option is to use program such as imapsync. It connects to
> source and destination servers using IMAP protocol, and copies the
> messages taking care to set flags on destination exactly as they were at
> source. This is rather slow, but usable for single user (or for
> multiple users, depending on size of their mailboxes).
>
>
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