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Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:35:39 +0100
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] old cyrus-imapd from overlay
From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org>
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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 o=
f
>> 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 versio=
n.
>
> 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.

--=20
Joost