recover mailboxes

Chantal Rosmuller crosmuller at gmail.com
Fri Mar 4 04:16:17 EST 2011


Thank you for your answer. The problem is that the data are on a damaged
disk, I can see the cyrus.cache, cyrus.index and cyrus.headers in ever (sub)
folder but not the individual messages.


On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Riccardo Veraldi <
Riccardo.Veraldi at cnaf.infn.it> wrote:

>
>
> you must recover the enitre mailbox from your backup, for example user
> called "generic"
>
> at this point you use reconstruct to rebuild hte mailbox with cyrus index
> files
>
> su cyrus
> reconstruct -r -f user.generic
>
> then you rebuild hte quota
>
> quota -f user.generic
>
> and you are done.
>
> But you must recover the individual message files in the mailbox path
> otherwise you are lost.
>
>
> /var/spool/imap/g/user/generic
>
>
> On 3/4/11 9:30 AM, Chantal Rosmuller wrote:
>
> Hi list,
>
> Is it possible to recover imap mailboxes with:
> cyrus.cache, cyrus.index and cyrus.headers?
>
> The OS is maxosx server 10.4
>
> I want to recover mail from the backup but I cannot find the individual
> message files.
>
> Regards, Chantal
>
>
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