recover mailboxes

Bron Gondwana brong at fastmail.fm
Fri Mar 4 13:08:52 EST 2011


On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 09:18:17AM -0400, Patrick Boutilier wrote:
> 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".

>From the cyrus.cache file you can recover SOME of the header information,
which may help you know what was lost.  But yes - those files won't help
you find any of the body of those emails.

Bron.


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