I just recompiled cyrus-imapd-2.1.16 and cyrus-sasl-2.1.15 with BDB 4.2 support and it seems to be working. Email is working, delivery, mail clients ok, etc.
There is a small odd thing, though. /var/lib/imap/db seems to still be at BDB 4.1, while the rest is at 4.2 (/var/lib/imap/mailboxes.db, for example): pandora [/var/lib/imap] > db4.2_archive -al /var/lib/imap/log.0000000001 pandora [/var/lib/imap/db] > db4.2_archive -al db_archive: Program version 4.2 doesn't match environment version db_archive: Ignoring log file: log.0000000001: unreadable log version 7 /var/lib/imap/db/log.0000000001 /var/lib/imap/db/log.0000000002 db_archive from BDB 4.1 works in /var/lib/imap/db: pandora [/var/lib/imap/db] > db4.1_archive -al /var/lib/imap/db/log.0000000001 pandora [/var/lib/imap/db] > db4.1_archive -as /var/lib/imap/deliver.db /var/lib/imap/mailboxes.db And does not work in /var/lib/imap: pandora [/var/lib/imap] > db4.1_archive -al db_archive: Ignoring log file: log.0000000001: unsupported log version 8 db_archive: Invalid log file: log.0000000001: Invalid argument db_archive: PANIC: Invalid argument db_archive: PANIC: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery db_archive: open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery I know the transaction log file format has changed, so db_archive from 4.1 shouldn't work, that's ok. What bothers me is that the database environment in /var/lib/imap/db is still at BDB 4.1. Even after archiving all the log files and shutting the server down (so that /var/lib/imap/db is empty), when I start it up again it's again at BDB 4.1. Any hints? Should it work, am I doing something wrong? I already ran db_recover (from 4.1 and 4.2, didn't seem to help).