Upgrade FC1->FC2 and cyrus-imapd

[_PepeR_]

Hi,
I just upgraded my machine from FC1 to FC2 and got big problem. Imapd from FC1 was repleaced by cyrus-imapd. But it's not working :( Cyrus-sasld athenticates users with success but users can't see their mailboxes. How should I easy migrate from imapd to cyrus-imapd ? I want /var/spool/mail mailboxes to be visible and local account ~/mail folder with users mail folders.
Thanks for help.

Peter,

[jeru]

Let me know how this is going..... I'm in the same perdicament... Seems like it's authenticating just fine, but doesn't know where the INBOX is.

[jeru]

actually, I tried dovecot that came with fedora and it seemed to get the job done a lot easier..... I'm not sure about cyrus....

[wizard]

Originally posted by jeru
Let me know how this is going..... I'm in the same perdicament... Seems like it's authenticating just fine, but doesn't know where the INBOX is.

Same here - I host my own domain and mail has been down for three days.

[dave-tx]

Originally posted by wizard
Same here - I host my own domain and mail has been down for three days.

Again, here's a "Me too"... my solution was to install the dovecot package. Like another user said, it worked right out of the box.

Anyone know why the Fedora team chose cyrus as the default over dovecot?

[wizard]

dovecot didn't work for me either. I ended up forcing clean installs of sendmail and cyrus (and why the cyrus utilities weren't part of the upgrade is beyond me - I got them with apt).

Then, I emptied out local-host-names and set up a mailertable like this -

domain.com          cyrusv2:domain.com

and ran

makemap hash mailertable.db < mailertable

to create the database.

Now all I have to do is migrate three days' worth of mail to cyrus mailboxes - which is gonna be a good trick, since a few utilities are missing from the Fedora distribution. I managed to find a copy of mboxtocyrus but it's complaining that /usr/sbin/cyrdeliver is missing - and I haven't found a copy yet.

If anyone has one, mailing it to wizard@pointbeing.com would be kind of a spiffy thing to do

thanks - and good luck to y'all. Almost everything worked fine out of the box, but the FC1 --> FC2 upgrade really blew chunks mailwise

cheers -

[wizard]

by God, I think I've got it

In the Fedora distribution there is no /usr/sbin/cyrdeliver - the executable is /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/deliver

All I had to do was change the CYRDELIVER variable in mboxtocyrus, put the script in /var/spool/mail and run

./mboxtocyrus <username>

This assumes the mbox and cyrus usernames are the same - but it worked just fine.

Yay!

[wizard]

If anybody else needs a copy of mboxtocyrus, here it is - I modified this one to work with FC2. Put it in your mail spool folder and run it like this -

./mboxtocyrus <username>

Again, assuming the mbox username and the cyrus username are the same.

disclaimer: We're messing with mail now - and this script worked for me. As always, YMMV. Here's the script -

#!/bin/sh
# Script to import mbox-format mailboxes to Cyrus folders
# Requires formail (from procmail)
#
# Note: As this runs cyrdeliver directly, you'll need to be
#       a member of the mail group for it to work.
#
# Use this script at your own risk! I'm not responsible if
# it trashes your mail system :)
#
# By Michael-John Turner <mj@debian.org>
#

USER=$1
MAILBOX=$2
CYRUSFOLDER=$3
#CYRDELIVER=/usr/sbin/cyrdeliver
CYRDELIVER=/usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/deliver
FORMAIL=/usr/bin/formail

if ! [ -x "$FORMAIL" ]; then
	echo ""
	echo "formail (from procmail) is required to run this script"
	echo ""
	exit 1
fi

if [ "$USER" = "" ]; then
	echo ""
	echo "syntax: $0 user [mbox] [cyrus folder]"
	echo ""
	echo "If no mbox is specified, the user and mbox name are taken to be the same"
	echo "If no cyrus folder is specified, the INBOX is used"
	echo ""
	exit 2
fi

if [ "$MAILBOX" == "" ]; then
	MAILBOX=$USER
fi

if [ "$CYRUSFOLDER" == "" ]; then
	echo "Adding mailbox '$MAILBOX' to Cyrus INBOX of user '$USER'..."
	$FORMAIL -I "From " < $MAILBOX -s $CYRDELIVER $USER
 else
	echo "Adding mailbox '$MAILBOX' to Cyrus folder '$CYRUSFOLDER' of user '$USER'..."
	$FORMAIL -I "From " < $MAILBOX -s $CYRDELIVER -m $CYRUSFOLDER $USER
fi

enjoy!

[blammo]

Originally posted by dave-tx
Anyone know why the Fedora team chose cyrus as the default over dovecot?

I think the Fedora Project is being true to its concept... which is to test the latest technologies. Although Cyrus has been around a few years, it is proving itself to be a high-performance, highly configurable imap system. I actually got this puppy playing nice with Sendmail, and I'm finding it to be a powerful setup. Remember that Redhat Linux is gone, along with their support and docs. We're riding on the razors edge here!

[jeru]

Originally posted by dave-tx
Anyone know why the Fedora team chose cyrus as the default over dovecot?

It's not really the default over dovecot. If you do a fresh install of FC2 as a server, I think all you can pick is dovecot from the GUI install. Otherwise you have to get the cyrus rpm's yourself with whatever you use to do that. As for why they translated FC1->FC2 imap as cyrus-imap... It just something for them to do since nothing is *exactly* translatable between this upgrade, and this service. dovecot supports mbox and maildir where cyrus is on it's own planet. But dovecot still does things different than traditional imap servers using it's imap caching/index's... Makes it nice and 'fast', don't know if i've ever seen the performance with standard large mbox files surmounted with anything else. Usually you need to use Maildir or a database type thing to get performance like this.

[aver5]

Hi,
I've a Problem like your ,
On a FC2 Cyrus-Imap pre-installed
I 'acn create Mbx ( eg : user.nomuser ) but if I create a special Mbox like a top level mbox ( eg : Office)
I can't suscribe it ??? with linux evolution client
I've tested on another computer with a tgz based cyrus-imapd and it work fine ????

[_PepeR_]

I just downgrade imapd to FC1 version. I think it's good solution

[metrion]

Kind of new to Fedora, using Core 2. How do you downgrade to FC 1 IMAPD? I can't get the current version to work at all. Can login to cyradm, but any create option yields broken pipe.

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