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

[Aaron M. S. <am...@iz...>]

Holger Krull wrote:

> 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)
>
>
Yes, the maiboxes are under /mnt/cyrus/mail, i.e.,
/mnt/cyrus/mai/a/user/<user>... that doesn't seem to work either

>
>> 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.
>
doesn't seem to work either, can't see them with any mail clients.
Thanks for trying,

-a