From: Ken Murchison (no email)
Date: Thu Oct 06 2005 - 09:17:44 EDT
Derek T. Yarnell wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
>
>> ----
>> reconstruct only reconstructs folders with the cyrus.cache,
>> cyrus.header, cyrus.index files in the directory. I'm not sure if you
>> can just touch those files to create them or copy them from another
>> directory (which will surely lead to errors), but if they aren't
>> present, they won't reconstruct.
>>
>> Craig
>>
>>
>>
>
> Thanks that works fine so i have to create the mailboxes first through a
> cyradm call.
>
> Next question I have is has anyone done any work with keeping the seen
> state using the formail method? Or is this just out of the question? Has
> everyone who has needed to migrate mail and saved the seen state of the
> mail just done it through imap transfer from the old imap server into
> cyrus?
The whole process would be a lot easier if you use mailutil from the UW
distro. It will do everything the "correct" way, which is via IMAP, not
via the filesystem and will also maintain flags.
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