Re: Importing/moving an older cyrus message tree into a new system, without IMAP

2010-09-15 Thread Shuvam Misra
> Annotations are defined in RFC 5257. > > They allow an admin to add metadata to a mailbox (or the server). The > cyradm utility sets annotations with its internal info, mboxcfg, and > setinfo commands. Okay, checked. Don't know where these things are used, other than expiry and sieve, but at le

Re: Importing/moving an older cyrus message tree into a new system, without IMAP

2010-09-14 Thread Dan White
On 15/09/10 06:46 +0530, Shuvam Misra wrote: >What are "annotations"? Annotations are defined in RFC 5257. They allow an admin to add metadata to a mailbox (or the server). The cyradm utility sets annotations with its internal info, mboxcfg, and setinfo commands. >> /var/lib/cyrus/tls_sessions.d

Re: Importing/moving an older cyrus message tree into a new system, without IMAP

2010-09-14 Thread Shuvam Misra
Dear Dan, > See the manpage for imapd.conf for possible formats, but for my 2.3.12 > installation, with configdirectory specified at /var/lib/cyrus (and no > customization to my *_db options), my database files are: Got it. Thanks a lot for the details. > /var/lib/cyrus/annotations.db What are

Re: Importing/moving an older cyrus message tree into a new system, without IMAP

2010-09-14 Thread Dan White
On 14/09/10 22:41 +0530, Shuvam Misra wrote: >What other meta-data files other than mailboxes.db do I need to copy if >I want to restore everything (seen flags, other flags, etc)? And will it >be a generally good practice to convert all required database files to >"flat" first, then re-convert to t

Re: Importing/moving an older cyrus message tree into a new system, without IMAP

2010-09-14 Thread Shuvam Misra
Dear Dan, > If you're not concerned about your quota database, seen state, annotations, > and subscription information, and assuming you've already regenerated your > top level mailbox hierarchy, then you should be able to copy over the > individual email files from each mailbox to the new server

Re: Importing/moving an older cyrus message tree into a new system, without IMAP

2010-09-14 Thread Shuvam Misra
> We did a migration some months back from an old Kolab v1 (cyrus v2.1) > system to a new Kolab v2.2 (cyrus v2.2) system. > > This was done by writing a script to > > - dump the ldap database (you might not have this) and load it on the new >system > - rsync the mailboxes from their locatio

Re: Importing/moving an older cyrus message tree into a new system, without IMAP

2010-09-14 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > I have an older system that crashed - cyrus version is a couple years or > so old. I have 1000's of messages in the spool that I need to preserve. > My question is about whether there's a way to import that huge tree of > messages into a new cyru

Re: Importing/moving an older cyrus message tree into a new system, without IMAP

2010-09-13 Thread Dan White
On 13/09/10 18:14 -0400, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > > I have an older system that crashed - cyrus version is a couple years >or so old. I have 1000's of messages in the spool that I need to >preserve. My question is about whether there's a way to import that >huge tree of messages into a new cyru

Importing/moving an older cyrus message tree into a new system, without IMAP

2010-09-13 Thread Forrest Aldrich
I have an older system that crashed - cyrus version is a couple years or so old. I have 1000's of messages in the spool that I need to preserve. My question is about whether there's a way to import that huge tree of messages into a new cyrus installation without imap-to-imap connectivity?