Understanding Sendmail/Cyrus-imap installation... AAAAAHHHHH!!!

[Aleksandar Milivojevic]

Mark Weaver wrote:
> Ok...fair enough and you're right. I didn't RTFM. :) Which leads me to 
> another question just popping up. Will the old user mailbox files 
> migrate easily to the new cyrus-imap mailboxes or are they in a 
> different format.

Instructions for mass migration could be found in O'Reilly book 
"Managing IMAP".  Online version also available:

    http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mimap/chapter/ch09.html#92594

Note that those instructions are optimized for case when you need to 
migrate (tens/hundreds of) thousands of users at once (either to or from 
Cyrus).  For your ten users, some steps could probably be made faster or 
simpler.

The stuff in /usr/share/doc/cyrus-imapd-* is also worth reading.

> As for cyrus admin... it didn't seem to get installed or didn't install 
> correctly because I was getting a perl error upon attempting to initiate 
> cyradm.

It would be helpful if you cut&paste the error message you got.  Without 
it, nobody can really help you.  Cyradm from Fedora's cyrus-imapd-utils 
RPM worked for me out-of-the-box on each and every system I installed 
(and this is really all that I or anybody else can tell you without 
seeing that error message).

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