Migrate Leopard Server Mail Database to Clean Install of Leopard Server

[chriscozi]

This was a Big Deal for me.
This may help someone else.

I used root to compress the /var/imap AND /var/spool/imap folders, then moved to the new drive in the same locations the clean install created.

Permissions were lost, -my dumb-, (and you can’t use Server Admin to repair permissions for _cyrus or /var as I found.)

Cyrus crashed with a permissions error. Disk Utility Repair Permissions laughed heartily.
Sigh.
Heavy sigh.
Net searching turned up:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3120/viewlocale=en_US

Which helped.

Halfway down the instructions for completely rebuilding imap 10.5:
sudo chown -R _cyrus:mail /var/imap

Then I added:
sudo chown -R _cyrus:mail /var/spool/imap

Then ran:
/usr/bin/cyrus/bin/reconstruct -i

And the multi-gig database and users were alive and kicking.

Thanks for listening.
😉

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