Pat Maddox wrote: > On 3/13/06, Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
