Tarjei Huse schrieb: > > > Boy, what a nightmare this turned out to be. > Yep. It aint easy :) > > > > I've been running the cyrus-imapd-2.0.16 rpms developed by Ramiro which > > can be found here: > > http://rmorales.modwest.com/rpms/cyrus-imapd/ > > > > and I figured it was time to upgrade to the 2.1.* series, so I got the > > source rpm cyrus-imapd-2.1.10-3.src.rpm developed by Simon Matter from here: > > http://home.teleport.ch/simix/ > > At this point, how much did you bother to read the docs and check that things were
cyrus-sasl 2.x is needed. RPMs for RH 7.3 can be found on my webpage too. ready? I just did a similar upgrade, and I tried reading the docs, but still. There were a lot of hassles. Here's my tips: > a) Maybe use RH's postfix rpms to start with? I think they got sasl support, and >that seems to be your only requirement.b) Install and move your user db before you >start with Cyrus. Well, at least for SMTP AUTH, RedHat's rpms don't work with SASL2 because they didn't patch the right way. > c) Simon, would you mind pointing this out on your fine webpage? > > The RPMS have a difference in where they store the config directories: > > 2.0.16 keeps it's configs in /var/imap > > 2.1.10-3 keeps it's configs in /var/lib/imap I changed some paths to comply with FHS. You're right, I may mention this on the webpage. > d) This as well: > > And how directory structure the mails box are located: > > 2.0.16 keeps the files under /var/spool/imap/user > > 2.1.10-3 keeps files under /var/spool/imap/a-z > I belive that what you need to do is to use the rehash script found in >/usr/libexec/cyrus I ran that a cuple of times (if someone might supply Chris with >the correct way to rehash that would be nice.) > > > In the end, I couldn't get the new cyrus rpms to find my mail boxes. > This is probably related to the /var/imap vs /var/lib/imap tingy. I also had a BIG >hassle with getting my different indexfiles in /var/lib/imap to work. > > I suggest you set of some time to work on that. Remember to set logging to full when >you start so you know where to look. Also read through the man pages for the ctl_* >commands found in /usr/libexec/cyrus. > > I solved my problems with the indexes by setting all to skiplist and recompiling, >but that was on RH8.0. I'm not sure, but I think you need to recompile Cyrus if you >change the db type, so be prepared for some simple .spec file hacking. > > e) > I do not think you need db4 for 2.1. when you use 7.3 - db3 is ok. > > I hope this might help you, > Tarjei > > gave up and eventually got the old rpms working again and I needed to > > rebuild my database to get it to work again with db3. I'm sure I made a > > few mistakes along the way so I'd like to find out how to properly > > migrate to the new cyrus rpms. Any thoughts, hints, or ideas would be > > greatly appreciated. Thank you. > > > > Chris
