Rob Tanner wrote:
> 
> Then how does one go from the flat mailboxes file to mailboxes.db? How does one, for 
>example, upgrade an existing system from 1.x to 2.x? As I plan on doing just that, 
>I'm kind of concerned.

>From doc/install-upgrade.html in the 2.x distibution:

ctl_mboxlist -u < mailboxes

Follow this doc from top to bottom and you shouldn't have any problems.

> --On Friday, December 01, 2000 04:42:54 PM -0500 Lawrence Greenfield 
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> >    Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 16:07:49 -0500
> >    From: Ken Murchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >    Organization: Oceana Matrix Ltd.
> >
> >    What makes you think that it is incompatible?  The reconstruct.c
> >    source was updated prior to 2.0.3 and seems to work just fine with
> >    the current code from CVS.
> >
> >    In fact, just before posting this, I removed
> >    '/var/spool/imap/user/test/cyrus.*' on my server and then ran
> >    'reconstruct user.test' and all is fine.
> >
> > I think they're referring to the -m option to reconstruct the
> > mailboxes database, which stopped working when we went to Berkeley db.
> >
> > Since we've never used -m, it hasn't been way up there on our list of
> > priorities.  (Running reconstruct -m on our main server would probably
> > take hours, if not days.)
> >
> > Rewriting it so that "-m" just scans all the spool directories and
> > recreates mailboxes.db, ignoring the existing one, shouldn't be so
> > hard.
> >
> > Larry
> >
> 
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>   Rob Tanner
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