HOWTO: Mailbox Restore

[Dawid van Wyngaard]

Hi,

I have followed the procedure as to backup my mailboxes on Cyrus-IMAP 2.x
running on a RH FC3 server and Sendmail MTA.

Once I have rebuilt my server, create my mail user in cyradm, and then
copied the backed up mailbox data to the /var/spool/imap/ directory, after
which I rebuilt the mailboxlist db from a flat file (mailboxlist.txt,
which was exported with the ctl_mailboxlst utility), after this I shutdown
the imap server and ran the following command "su cyrus -c
'/usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/reconstruct -rf user.username'". After this I reset
my quotas with "quotas -f".

It restores my rights and folders but I have no content / emails in my
folders! The backed up directory does contain data but I'm seeing nothing.

Is there a writtent, step-by-step procedure that someone can point me too?
Maybe I have missed something that I need to do

Many thanks,

Dawid van Wyngaard
EMC2 Consulting / e-Services
Tel: +27-11-704 0396
Fax: +27-088 011 704 0123
Web1: http://www.emc2sa.com/
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