Yes !! Working perfectly. I had to copy the cyrus.* files in the users mailbox over again and then the upgrade went on smoothly.
Thank you all. Milos Zupancic On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Michael Menge < michael.me...@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote: > Quoting Michael Menge <michael.me...@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de>: > > Hi, >> >> Quoting Milos Zupancic <milo...@gmail.com>: >> >> First i wanted to test the upgrade on a single user with a moderate >>> amount >>> of mail. >>> I copied the mail folder, exported mailboxes.db to a text file and remove >>> no existent mailboxes and then recreate >>> mailboxes.db on the new server. >>> I also created user/*/ folders and copied .seen file to the correct >>> folder >>> >>> Then i started master and tried it with a mail client. >>> All mail is still marked as unread. >>> >>> Did I missed a step in the upgrade ? >>> >> >> Do the files and folders have the correct ownership and permissions? >> Do you see any errors in the cyrus logs? >> >> > One more question, did you keep the mailbox from the first try? > If yes, the header files would already be upgraded to new version > including the information the all emails are new. > So you have to copy the cyrus.* files again. > > > >>> Milos Zupancic >>> >>> On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Michael Menge < >>> michael.me...@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>>> >>>> >>>> Quoting Milos Zupancic <milo...@gmail.com>: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>>> >>>>> We are planning to upgrade our mail server to the latest version from >>>>> 2.3.15. >>>>> The problem i'm having is how do i preserve seen status. In 2.3.15 >>>>> there >>>>> is >>>>> a .seen file but i was reading that this is now all in .index file. >>>>> So when i copied all the mailboxes to a test server the seen status was >>>>> not >>>>> preserved. (all mail was unread) >>>>> >>>>> Any suggestions on how to handle this ? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Milos Zupancic >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Before Cyrus 2.4.x the seen status was stored in the userid.seen files >>>> in the /<coconfigdirectory>/user directory or subfolders. Did you copy >>>> these files? >>>> >>>> Michael Menge >>>> >>>> >> >> >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> M.Menge Tel.: (49) 7071/29-70316 >> Universität Tübingen Fax.: (49) 7071/29-5912 >> Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung mail: >> michael.me...@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de >> Wächterstraße 76 >> 72074 Tübingen >> > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > M.Menge Tel.: (49) 7071/29-70316 > Universität Tübingen Fax.: (49) 7071/29-5912 > Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung mail: > michael.me...@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de > Wächterstraße 76 > 72074 Tübingen > > ---- > Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ > List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ >
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