I have a Linix server that won't boot. I've patched in a live CD and mounted the original HDDs so I can browse the files using SSH. I am trying to find where all my customer emails are stored so that I can (hopefully) copy them off this "dead" server onto a new server which is also running cPanel and Dovecot. Does anyone know where Dovecot stores emails for each email account when it runs under cPanel? I can see a directory called /home/<cpanel username>/mail/<domain name>/<mail username> (I've used <xxxxx> in place of the actual text to obviscate the actual user information). If I navigate to that directory I can see lots of interesting sub directories e.g. cur, new and tmp plus some files such as: dovecot.index.cache, dovecote.index, dovecote-uidlist But then I'm stumped. I was hoping to find a big fat directory that contained all the mail files. Is anyone able to tell me what I need to copy across to get all the old emails off the "dead" server onto the new one? Thank you. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20191029/5a0484f2/attachment.html>
You found the right thing :) 15 years ago yes, it was a file but people wasn't sending mpeg4 on mail :) On 10/29/19 8:29 PM, Mark | Small World Systems via dovecot wrote:> > I have a Linix server that won't boot. ?I've patched in a live CD and > mounted the original HDDs so I can browse the files using SSH. > > I am trying to find where all my customer emails are stored so that I > can (hopefully) copy them off this "dead" server onto a new server > which is also running cPanel and Dovecot. > > Does anyone know where Dovecot stores emails for each email account > when it runs under cPanel? > > I can see a directory called /home/<cpanel username>/mail/<domain > name>/<mail username> > > (I've used <xxxxx> in place of the actual text to obviscate the actual > user information). > > If I navigate to that directory I can see lots of interesting sub > directories e.g. cur, new and tmp plus some files such as: > > dovecot.index.cache, dovecote.index, dovecote-uidlist > > But then I'm stumped. ?I was hoping to find a big fat directory that > contained all the mail files. > > Is anyone able to tell me what I need to copy across to get all the > old emails off the "dead" server onto the new one? > > Thank you. >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20191029/36dda6a9/attachment.html>
> On 29/10/2019 20:29 Mark | Small World Systems via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org> wrote: > > > I have a Linix server that won't boot. I've patched in a live CD and mounted the original HDDs so I can browse the files using SSH. > I am trying to find where all my customer emails are stored so that I can (hopefully) copy them off this "dead" server onto a new server which is also running cPanel and Dovecot. > Does anyone know where Dovecot stores emails for each email account when it runs under cPanel? > I can see a directory called /home/<cpanel username>/mail/<domain name>/<mail username> > (I've used <xxxxx> in place of the actual text to obviscate the actual user information). > If I navigate to that directory I can see lots of interesting sub directories e.g. cur, new and tmp plus some files such as: > dovecot.index.cache, dovecote.index, dovecote-uidlist > But then I'm stumped. I was hoping to find a big fat directory that contained all the mail files. > Is anyone able to tell me what I need to copy across to get all the old emails off the "dead" server onto the new one? > Thank you.Hi, you can copy the directory structure "as-is" to new dovecot. The format you are looking is called 'maildir++' format, and is supported by dovecot out of the box. The actual mails are under new and cur directories. Just configure dovecot mail_home=/home/cpanel/%Ld/%Lu mail_location=maildir:~/ mail_gid=cpanel mail_uid=cpanel replace cpanel with actual username.... for the rest of the config, you can start with https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/quick_configuration/ Aki