Quoting Tim Champ <champ@umbc.edu>:

> Hello all.
>
> We've setup a new cyrus backend server with 2.3.15. (as a part of our
> cyrus mail setup here)  Our current version is a patched up 2.3.8.  When
> we xfer users from an "old" backend server to another "old" server and
> then reconstruct, we have no problems.  It works as we'd expect - purges
> expunged mails, etc.
>
> When we do this from an "old" backend server to the "new" one, it always
> sees the expunge file as not valid.  The message:
>
> "Unable to verify header - deleting: $MAILBOX_PATH/cyrus.expunge"
>

using xfer you don't need to run reconstruct. But it should not harm.

> The access to the mailbox, etc, all seems to work fine, except that any
> mail that was previously deleted and not removed via cyr_expire (we do
> delayed delete) returns to the mailbox.  This concerns us as we're not
> sure why it wouldn't understand the expunge files.
>

reconstruct has a new option -k, to keep delayed delete mails.

> Although we could not reconstruct post-move (we've done it for cleanup
> purposes historically), it worries us that we'd place this version of
> cyrus on an existing mail server and have this issue the first time a
> reconstruct was needed.  (undead mail, as we've termed it)
>
> Any ideas?  Still doing testing and trying things, but at a loss right
> now.  If more information is needed, I'm happy to provide it.  We've
> googled around, and searched the mail archives, read documenation, but
> to no avail.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Tim
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