HOWTO: Mailbox Restore

[Jérôme NENERT]

Hi,
To rebuild the mailboxlist database, the imap server need to be down.
Did you check that you can list your mailboxes using cyradm ?
Jerome

Dawid van Wyngaard wrote:
> 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
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