Re: [Mailsync-list] How to import old Cyrus mailboxes

[Holger K. <hol...@gm...>]

Aaron Stromas schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm looking for an advice with this problem. My Debian (woody) running
> Cyrus IMAP server lost its system disk. In ordr not to loose any
> incoming mail I rebuilt it with the current stable (sarge) version and
> recreated user mailboxes in the new Cyrus IMAP. The old mailboxes were
> on a different disk and I need to import their contents to the new IMAP.
> I hoped to do this by using mailsync with the following .mailsync but
> the localdirectory store isn't recognised.
> 
> store localdirectory {
>     pat /mnt/cyrus/mail
> }

you would at least need 
pat /mnt/cyrus/mail/*
if mail is the user specific directory. (is /var/spool/imap/user/username here)



> Any idea how to get this accomplished? Can I just drop the old mailbox
> contents into new mailboxes, imcluding subfolders? If that is possible,
> do I need to run something to recreate the index? Appreciace any help.
I assume that copying the old mailbox files to the new server will work. But i never tried that.