HOWTO: Mailbox Restore

[Jérôme NENERT]

Hi,
Did you check that you subscribe folders ? If you didn't save .sub 
files, the subscription status are lost.
Regards.
Jerome

Dawid van Wyngaard wrote:
> 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/
>>>----
>>>Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus
>>>Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu
>>>List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
>>>
>>
>>----
>>Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus
>>Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu
>>List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
>>
> 
> 
> 
> 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/
>