On Sun, 2013-05-19 at 12:30 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems) wrote: > On 2013-04-26 16:17, Bron Gondwana wrote: > > Is anybody actually using cyrus 2.5 git in production other than > > FastMail? > Yes, though admittedly I should say "production".
No, only just beginning to think about it and look into what is going to get changed in terms of database formats [ -> 2.4 was a bit ugly ]. > > I'm planning to do the mailboxes.db format changes before releasing > > 2.5, so that we don't have to support a stupid intermediate format. > > It's been on my todo list for AGES as one of the final blockers to 2.5 > > being released, and I've finally got some spare cycles away from our > > internal search code. It would be nice to have all the changes happen at once and just 'get them over with'. Database updates always hit hard. > > But it would simplify things considerably if I don't have to write an > > importer that goes upstream. I'd just manually script a conversion of > > the FastMail servers, and then toss away the intermediate code. > None of our systems with 2.5 in "production" use special-use, nor are > they expected to be upgraded smoothly without manual / scripted sysadmin > intervention. Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awill...@whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA