Jon Clausen wrote:
Right. I guess I should have pointed out earlier, that I am in fact the only user on either of the servers.
Ah, in that case there is at least no one breathing fire down your neck to get the problem solved. (^-^)
My original plan was to copy the contents using IMAP, and if all else fails that is still a viable solution. Even if it means I have to depart from the 'vanila' state of the new server.
Why don't you do that? That is the usual way to migrate a mailbox to another server, when there is no tool available. I know I once migrated a POP3 Mailbox to Imap that way. Just add another server account in your mail client and copy the contents of the old server to the new. It will take some hours but that shouldn't be a problem.
INBOX; Toplevel, 'synced' manually INBOX.1st-sub; Mailinglists, workrelated etc. some in sync some not INBOX.2nd-sub; Timeslice archives of above (quarterly, monthly etc)
What I'm looking at restoring, at this point, is mostly just the 2nd sublevel. So I think that the basic approach outlined previously would still apply, with modifications to only work on the 2nd level?
Webcyradm should have the option to reconstruct a mailbox. Have you tried that?
One hare-brained way to get them back might be to export the mailbox.db on the old system and the new system, merge these files and then use unique to delete double entries. This might work, but I have never tried something that reckless. (^-^)
I like that :)
By the way, I think Suse already performs a text export of the mailbox database every night. Have a look at /var/lib/imap/backup. Sandy -- List replies only please! Please address PMs to: news-reply (@) japantest (.) homelinux (.) com