HOWTO: Mailbox Restore

[Dawid van Wyngaard]

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Got it figured out. All my NNN. files lost the "." at the end of the file
for some or other reason. Simply rename the existing NNN to NNN. and then
doing a reconstruct it works.

Thanks,

Dawid

> 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
>>>>
>>>
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>>>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/
>>
>
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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/