HOWTO: Mailbox Restore

[Dawid van Wyngaard]

Hi,

Yip, I can list all my mailboxes in CYRADM, I can see the folders but it
contains no email messages...

Thanks,

Dawid

> 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
>> EMC2 Consulting / e-Services
>> Tel: +27-11-704 0396
>> Fax: +27-088 011 704 0123
>> Web1: http://www.emc2sa.com/
>> Web2: http://e-services.homelinux.net/web_eservices/
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>>
>
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Dawid van Wyngaard
EMC2 Consulting / e-Services
Tel: +27-11-704 0396
Fax: +27-088 011 704 0123
Web1: http://www.emc2sa.com/
Web2: http://e-services.homelinux.net/web_eservices/