Hello Simon Thanks for your quick reply, but never-mind I already got the system back up and working. A few missing selinux polices prevented the IMAPd from working correctly. The chmod -R seems to have done the trick... > You should not only preserve ownership and permissions but also hardlinks > to save space when using single instance store. But anyways, lesson learned: when doing backups always preserve the attributes! :) Regards, Matthias ---- 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