restore email

[Sam]

Andrew Morgan wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Sam wrote:
>
>> I m not too sure what these files are.
>> Here is the content of the directory:
>>
>> # tar -zpcvf sam.tgz *
>> a 230.
>> a Drafts
>> a Drafts/cyrus.header
>> a Drafts/cyrus.cache
>> a Drafts/cyrus.index
>> a Drafts/cyrus.squat
>> a Sent Items
>> a Sent Items/cyrus.cache
>> a Sent Items/1.
>> a Sent Items/cyrus.squat
>> a Sent Items/2.
>> a Sent Items/cyrus.header
>> a Sent Items/cyrus.index
>> a Sent Items/3.
>> a Sent Items/4.
>> a Sent Items/5.
>> a Sent Items/6.
>> a Sent Items/7.
>> a Sent Items/10.
>> a Sent Items/11.
>> a Sent Items/12.
>> a Sent Items/13.
>> a Sent Items/8.
>> a Sent Items/9.
>> a Sent Items/14.
>> a Trash
>> a Trash/cyrus.cache
>> a Trash/cyrus.squat
>> a Trash/28.
>> a Trash/29.
>> a Trash/30.
>> a Trash/31.
>> a Trash/32.
>> a Trash/33.
>> a Trash/34.
>> a Trash/cyrus.header
>> a Trash/cyrus.index
>> a backup
>> a cyrus.cache
>> a cyrus.header
>> a cyrus.index
>> a cyrus.squat
>>
>> I fond some 1,2,3... files here, but they don't belong to the 
>> Received or Inbox folders (there is no such folders here in the 
>> backup directory).
>
> The actual messages are stored in the numbered files.
>
> Simply restore all the files in the archive, then get rid all the 
> cyrus.cache, cyrus.squat, and cyrus.index files.  Then, run the 
> reconstruct and quota commands.
After removed the cyrus.cache, cyrus.squat, and cyrus.index files, the 
mail client (thunderbird) got an error ".... Unable to lock ... file... 
I/O error".

Sam.
>
>     Andy
>
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