[gentoo-user] old cyrus-imapd from overlay

[gentoo-user] old cyrus-imapd from overlay

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

Greets,

does anyone have experience with cyrus-imapd on gentoo?

I have to migrate an ancient suse-10.1-server, it runs:

# rpm -qa | grep cyrus
cyrus-sasl-2.1.21-3
cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.21-3
cyrus-imapd-2.2.12-13

portage gives me cyrus-imapd-2.4.12 which is fine but I don't know if
upgrading this far is possible without problems.

I found the OSSDL-overlay, but cyrus-imapd-2.2.13 fails to build ...

* does anyone have experience with upgrading cyrus-imapd?

* does anyone have a running older release/ebuild where the migration
should be safe?

pls no advice to use dovecot etc, the job here is to possibly move over
/var/spool/imap and "press play" (simplified, you get the picture).

A change of software might be considered later, right now I have to
maintain a running server while moving to newer hardware and OS.

Thanks, Stefan

Re: [gentoo-user] old cyrus-imapd from overlay

[J. Roeleveld]

On Tue, February 28, 2012 4:34 pm, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
>
> Greets,
>
> does anyone have experience with cyrus-imapd on gentoo?
>
> I have to migrate an ancient suse-10.1-server, it runs:
>
> # rpm -qa | grep cyrus
> cyrus-sasl-2.1.21-3
> cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.21-3
> cyrus-imapd-2.2.12-13
>
> portage gives me cyrus-imapd-2.4.12 which is fine but I don't know if
> upgrading this far is possible without problems.
>
> I found the OSSDL-overlay, but cyrus-imapd-2.2.13 fails to build ...
>
> * does anyone have experience with upgrading cyrus-imapd?
>
> * does anyone have a running older release/ebuild where the migration
> should be safe?
>
> pls no advice to use dovecot etc, the job here is to possibly move over
> /var/spool/imap and "press play" (simplified, you get the picture).
>
> A change of software might be considered later, right now I have to
> maintain a running server while moving to newer hardware and OS.
>
> Thanks, Stefan

Stefan,

I haven't had problems with upgrading, but I didn't "wait" this long.
Eg. I didn't migrate from 2.1 to 2.4 directly.

I would suggest you check on the cyrus-imap mailing list (see bottom of
email) for tips. Installing it is simple, but there are a few changes with
some of the files.

A safer method would be running the 2 versions in parallel and using
imapsync or something similar to copy the email over to the new version.

--
Joost

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Re: [gentoo-user] old cyrus-imapd from overlay

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

Am 2012-02-29 08:23, schrieb J. Roeleveld:
> Stefan,
> 
> I haven't had problems with upgrading, but I didn't "wait" this long.
> Eg. I didn't migrate from 2.1 to 2.4 directly.

*SIGH* ;-)

> I would suggest you check on the cyrus-imap mailing list (see bottom of
> email) for tips. Installing it is simple, but there are a few changes with
> some of the files.
> 
> A safer method would be running the 2 versions in parallel and using
> imapsync or something similar to copy the email over to the new version.

Sure, yes. I have to research how to do that for hundreds of mailboxes
in one command ...

I have 2.4.12 on the newer box already, will look that up asap.

Thanks, Stefan

Re: [gentoo-user] old cyrus-imapd from overlay

[J. Roeleveld]

On Wed, February 29, 2012 9:10 am, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> Am 2012-02-29 08:23, schrieb J. Roeleveld:
>> Stefan,
>>
>> I haven't had problems with upgrading, but I didn't "wait" this long.
>> Eg. I didn't migrate from 2.1 to 2.4 directly.
>
> *SIGH* ;-)
>
>> I would suggest you check on the cyrus-imap mailing list (see bottom of
>> email) for tips. Installing it is simple, but there are a few changes
>> with
>> some of the files.
>>
>> A safer method would be running the 2 versions in parallel and using
>> imapsync or something similar to copy the email over to the new version.
>
> Sure, yes. I have to research how to do that for hundreds of mailboxes
> in one command ...

There is an example for this on the project homepage:
http://imapsync.lamiral.info/
All you need is the usernames/passwords for the different users.

> I have 2.4.12 on the newer box already, will look that up asap.

If you want to still try to copy the mail over, you need to look into
converting the *.db files.

-- 
Joost

Re: [gentoo-user] old cyrus-imapd from overlay

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

Am 2012-02-29 09:35, schrieb J. Roeleveld:
> 
> On Wed, February 29, 2012 9:10 am, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
>> Sure, yes. I have to research how to do that for hundreds of
>> mailboxes in one command ...
> 
> There is an example for this on the project homepage: 
> http://imapsync.lamiral.info/ All you need is the usernames/passwords
> for the different users.

hmm, found it already, thanks ... a bit uncomfortable.
I would have to extract user/pws from the mysql-DB ... but they are
crypted there afaik ... will look at my DB-backups now.


>> I have 2.4.12 on the newer box already, will look that up asap.
> 
> If you want to still try to copy the mail over, you need to look
> into converting the *.db files.

Thanks for the hint.
S

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED: old cyrus-imapd from overlay

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

Am 29.02.2012 09:35, schrieb J. Roeleveld:

> If you want to still try to copy the mail over, you need to look into
> converting the *.db files.

Just as a closing(?) feedback here:

people at the cyrus-ml were a great support, I am nearly done with my
conversion.

And, yes, I run (gentoo stable) 2.4.12 now.

Thanks, Stefan

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED: old cyrus-imapd from overlay

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

Am 29.02.2012 22:27, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
> Am 29.02.2012 09:35, schrieb J. Roeleveld:
> 
>> If you want to still try to copy the mail over, you need to look into
>> converting the *.db files.
> 
> Just as a closing(?) feedback here:
> 
> people at the cyrus-ml were a great support, I am nearly done with my
> conversion.
> 
> And, yes, I run (gentoo stable) 2.4.12 now.

Does anyone use web-cyradm with this??
I can use the web-app, it writes to mysql OK.
But it doesn't trigger cyradm to create mailboxes ...

And I wonder if that might have to do with php or *something*

Stefan