Thanks for all the suggestions. In the end, I took a scratch server, installed Cyrus on it and was able to import the mailbox dump file without any problem. On the server I was having the problems with, I reinstalled Linux and Cyrus, and imported the mailboxes just fine. I've no idea what was going wrong before(!). Keith ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html