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From: Alan Thew (no email)
Date: Thu Oct 06 2005 - 15:31:55 EDT
On Thu, 6 Oct 2005 09:17 , Ken Murchison <> said:
> Derek T. Yarnell wrote:
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>> Craig White wrote:
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>>> ----
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>> 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.
>
We did it this way for about 20K users across 2 boxes.
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