Enabling improved_mboxlist_sort ******************************* You can't enable and disable "improved_mboxlist_sort" on a live system. You need to dump and load the necessary database after stopping and before starting the master process. Rename the original mailboxes.db out of the way between dumping the old and loading the new. Dumping the mailboxes.db file ctl_mboxlist -d > /var/tmp/mailboxes.txt mv mailboxes.db mailboxes.db.orig ctl_mboxlist -u < /var/tmp/mailboxes.txt If your subscription databases are not in flat files you need to do something similar. Each user will have his own subscription file. Do the following for each subscription file. cyr_dbtool -C $file skiplist show > $file.TXT cyr_dbtool -n $file skiplist set < $file.TXT The above fragments will overwrite the original file. So you could redirect to a temporary file and overwrite the database if the import succeeds.