From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 13 14:28:09 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B73D416A401 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 14:28:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23A3943D49 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 14:28:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FBF25CEA; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 09:28:08 -0500 (EST) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 76213-04; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 09:28:07 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-129-91.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.129.91]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A6925C27; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 09:28:07 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4415817A.1080604@mac.com> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 09:28:10 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pat Maddox References: <44152AD0.2070803@yourdot-mail.com> <441571F8.7090702@mac.com> <810a540e0603130559l62418490waea54a221f0f1801@mail.gmail.com> <44157D0E.4090104@mac.com> <810a540e0603130624r1ff51928m49826c9c12886937@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <810a540e0603130624r1ff51928m49826c9c12886937@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail backup solution? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 14:28:09 -0000 Pat Maddox wrote: > On 3/13/06, Chuck Swiger 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