recover mailboxes

[Patrick Boutilier]

On 03/04/2011 05:16 AM, Chantal Rosmuller wrote:
> 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.

Individual messages actually contain the data in the message. With the 
cyrus.* files the e-mail client may show the messages in a list but as 
soon as the client tried to open a message it would be "empty".

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