Thanks to Edward Rudd and Simon Matter, who helped sort this out.
First:
--with-mboxlist-db=skiplist- no difference.
This is no longer supported in cyrus 2.2.x dB formats are specified only
in the configuration file.
No, I realized that when I looked into the configure file. Th
Ever since cyrus 2.0 I dragged along the mailboxes.db in berkeley
format, but finally decided to change to skiplist.
I converted mailboxes.db to skiplist format, and changed imapd.conf
entry mboxlist_db from berkeley to
skiplist and attempted to start cyrus, which failed.
Every time I start cyr