Ken Murchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > Daniel Qian wrote: > > In the /var/imap/db directory of my email server I noticed several backup > > files: > > __db.001 __db.002 __db.003 __db.004 __db.005 log.0000000001 mailbox.dump > > I figure I may use these files to restore messages in mailboxes. But I > > couldn't find any documentation as to how these files are created and how I > > could use them to restore mailboxes. Anyone can give me some ideas how they > > work or point me to some resources where I can get to know how? > > These files are for restoring the mboxlist.db, they can not be used to > restore messages. If you deleted a message file and don't have a > backup, you're screwed. > > -- > Kenneth Murchison Oceana Matrix Ltd. > Software Engineer 21 Princeton Place > 716-662-8973 x26 Orchard Park, NY 14127 > --PGP Public Key-- http://www.oceana.com/~ken/ksm.pgp > > >
How could I restore the mboxlist.db from these files? My mboxlist.db file is a small file but how come these __db.00X files are much larger? I tried ctl_mboxlist -u < mailbox.dump but didn't succeed. -- Best Regards, Daniel Qian