Re: How to restore IMAP mailboxes

[Daniel Nilsson <daniel@oden.homeip.net>]

On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 08:46:28PM -0500, Aaron Stromas wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> Somehow during my Debian upgrade I managed to trash my Cyrus 2.1 IMAP
> server, it no longer boots. I ended up rebuilding the system on the second
> drive and, luckily, I can mount the old /var filesystem which contains all
> the IMAP data. How can I migrate user mailboxes from the old server to the
> new? TIA for any suggestions.

Maybe this thread can help ?

http://lists.debian.org/debian-isp/2005/08/msg00019.html

I used to do it more or less that same way on older Cyrus servers, and
that worked. Just remember that subscriptions are lost and that all
messages are unseen.

/Daniel