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.

-- Rob

--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
  UNIX and Networks Manager
  Linfield College, McMinnville OR
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