On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote: > Sean wrote: > > I've built new mail server and migrated over my mailboxes. When I access > > my mailbox on the new machine all of the messages show up as unread. > > Is there a was to preserve the message flags? > > If you simply copy mailboxes over, than flags will be lost. The only > way to preserve them when migration is done this way is if both servers > are running same implementation of IMAP daemon (uw-imapd to uw-imapd, or > cyrus to cyrus). If you are doing cyrus to cyrus migration, you should > also copy database files where flags are stored.
Thanks for the input. I am doing a cyrus to cyrus migration and I just copied /var/spool/imap and not the db files. I'll give it another go. -Sean > Would be nice if there was a tool that is able to read Berkeley style > mailboxes, parse them for uw-imapd headers used for storing flags, and > creates Cyrus database based on that information. > > If you are migrating from different IMAP server (for example uw-imapd to > cyrus), one option is to use program such as imapsync. It connects to > source and destination servers using IMAP protocol, and copies the > messages taking care to set flags on destination exactly as they were at > source. This is rather slow, but usable for single user (or for > multiple users, depending on size of their mailboxes). > > --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
