Fredrik, Thanks for your time. You've actually answered my question. :-) Ziska Fredrik Jervfors-4 wrote: > >> Apologies - I'm sure this has been asked and answered many times before >> but I can't seem to find it with my search skills. >> >> The problem: I'm trying to access email which (should have been) should >> be stored on the server. >> >> The backstory: One of my clients asked that their web site be moved to a >> new server because they were having constant problems with email. The >> server which I had been using (through a resellers account) uses Squirrel >> mail. To be fair the resellers had tried their best to solve the >> problems- >> but a sequence of unfortunate events created a very unhappy client- who >> laid down the law. >> >> I migrated to a new server, and talked the client through setting up a >> new POP. The client then deleted the old POP (this is a client who can't >> tolerate more than one inbox in view at a time). The client is on Mac. >> The >> old POP has disappeared from the library , the inbox, and the back up >> drive taking all the old sent and received email with it. > > The whole point with POP is to delete the mail from the server and only > keep a local copy in the mail client. Use IMAP if the mail is supposed to > be stored on the server. SquirrelMail only use IMAP, so apparently the ISP > (or resellers) have an IMAP server. > >> I went back to the resellers (I still have a large number of sites on >> their server- just not this one) asking if there was a way to retrieve >> the >> mail. >> >> I have received no answer from them on any question for over a week. >> >> Is there any way to retrieve the mail through the administrator/user ftp? > > What administrator/user FTP? I've no idea what you're asking about, and > there's no such thing in SquirrelMail as far as I know. My guess is that > the FTP is some service provided to you by the ISP. > > There is no way to retrieve lost mail through the SquirrelMail web > interface. You need access to the server to have at least a chance to do > that. > > -- > Fredrik Jervfors > The SquirrelMail Project > Please support Open Source Software by donating to SquirrelMail! > http://squirrelmail.org/donations.php > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge > This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, > vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have > the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full > prize > details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge > ----- > squirrelmail-users mailing list > Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines > List address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user > List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/mail-retrieval-from-server--migration-error-tp24550922p24573171.html Sent from the squirrelmail-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge ----- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
