Re: [SM-USERS] Restore user's mailbox to new server build

[Roland F. <rol...@fr...>]

Hello unknown ;)

Jsilliman schrieb:
> I have read the Squirrelmail documentation that says "Squirrelmail
> keeps no files, data is in the IMAP server"....I don't find this to be
> true with Ubuntu and Squirrelmail because I can copy the file that SQ
> keeps in /var/mail/username and it's all their mail and have restored
> folks's email this way from a clone drive.

It's not Squirrel that is using this file you mentioned, it's your IMAP
server that's living on the same machine ;)

>
> However, how can/would I bring this file over to a new server build of
> Squirrelmail because the old server died?  I tried to copy the old
> file over and I get a mailbox error when I log in.  Is there a
> checksum of some sort?  I really need to get this large user's mailbox
> restored/imported, etc.

If the harddisk of your old server is still alive and bootable, easiest
way would be to start your old server's harddisk in a different machine
and use imapcopy to transfer the mailbox to the new server. If you just
have the copy of the mailfile, there should be a way to integrate this in
another server running the same IMAP demon. But this is a question to be
asked in a imap mailinglist - or try using google ;)

Good luck
Roland.