I have understood correctly when thinking that all I need to do in order to restore mails, is to just copy the old maildir folder to the location where mail_location is pointing to and dovecot will find all the mails and display the old mails? Regards, BTJ -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bj?rn T Johansen btj at havleik.no ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Someone wrote: "I understand that if you play a Windows CD backwards you hear strange Satanic messages" To which someone replied: "It's even worse than that; play it forwards and it installs Windows" -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bj?rn T Johansen said the following on 18/08/09 21:44:> I have understood correctly when thinking that all I need to do in order to restore mails, is to just copy the old maildir folder to the location > where mail_location is pointing to and dovecot will find all the mails and display the old mails?That's exactly what I do when I restore emails. Note that some mail clients need to restart in order to be aware of the restored mails. Ciao, luigi - -- / +--[Luigi Rosa]-- \ God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. --William Bragg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkqLCa4ACgkQ3kWu7Tfl6ZQ49ACfTpkzCaRmqOX8RVOujT4cZteu 0m0An3PWzCby4nxPJIJoosC1lT/kT5cT =s2BO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On 8/18/2009, Bj?rn T Johansen (btj at havleik.no) wrote:> I have understood correctly when thinking that all I need to do in > order to restore mails, is to just copy the old maildir folder to the > location where mail_location is pointing to and dovecot will find all > the mails and display the old mails?That should be it... Also be sure they have the correct permissions (depends on your setup)... -- Best regards, Charles