<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <blockquote cite="mid1141387838.10485.14.camel@tweedy.ksc.nasa.gov" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">For my home IMAP server I did the following. I use saslauthd and mech PLAIN. Your auth method may require more. Backup: /etc/imapd.conf /etc/cyrus.conf /var/lib/imap /var/spool/imap /etc/mail If the new box is running a different version of DB then you will need to convert the old database info to the new format. See: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=160317">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=160317</a> for details of the conversion (specifically Comment #7). Make sure cyrus-imapd, saslauthd and sendmail are not running before restoring the above files. Start those services when the restore is complete</pre> </blockquote> Thanks Bob. Actually I hate doing this (mail) because I forget everything until I have maintenance to do. I've got cyrus+postfix with Web-cyradm. How can I check the version of the DB? I'll also need to move all my MySQL databases is that just as easy? </body> </html>