From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] old cyrus-imapd from overlay
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:35:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7baba96c488a14a4e3707c6d561ed78c.squirrel@www.antarean.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F4DDD76.3010102@xunil.at>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-29 8:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-28 15:34 [gentoo-user] old cyrus-imapd from overlay Stefan G. Weichinger
2012-02-29 7:23 ` J. Roeleveld
2012-02-29 8:10 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2012-02-29 8:35 ` J. Roeleveld [this message]
2012-02-29 8:55 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2012-02-29 21:27 ` [gentoo-user] SOLVED: " Stefan G. Weichinger
2012-03-02 20:23 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
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