On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 09:28 -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: > 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? >
Using Evolution, I made a tar backup of the .evolution directory, and copied it to another machine. It came nowhere close to working properly, and was about as annoying to work with as Outlook. It behaved just like a proprietary product with mysterious file formats, even though the mailbox files themselves seem to be clean mboxes. It must keep configuration data hidden somewhere else. I am pretty well fed up with the product, and may switch to Thunderbird. Or have I failed to understand something? -- Mike Jeays http://ca.geocities.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
