Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 09:28:10 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Pat Maddox <pergesu@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail backup solution? Message-ID: <4415817A.1080604@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <810a540e0603130624r1ff51928m49826c9c12886937@mail.gmail.com> References: <44152AD0.2070803@yourdot-mail.com> <441571F8.7090702@mac.com> <810a540e0603130559l62418490waea54a221f0f1801@mail.gmail.com> <44157D0E.4090104@mac.com> <810a540e0603130624r1ff51928m49826c9c12886937@mail.gmail.com>
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Pat Maddox wrote: > On 3/13/06, Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> wrote: [ ... ] >> The two most common styles of mailboxes are mbox and maildir, and both of those >> can be backed up at the filesystem level using dump, tar, or anything else. > > I've got it set up using maildir. In the past to back up the mail I > just copied the files. At one point I had to restore from the backup, > so I just copied the files back into the original location. Logging > in via imap though, there were no emails to be found. I've gotten > vague "I think you just copy the files" responses, but that didn't > work in my case, and I'm not sure what I need to do. Did you take a look at an actual mailbox file and confirm that it contained the messages you expected? Did you restart the IMAP daemon after doing the restore? -- -Chuck
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