Thanks, I figured that out too after thinking about it. I was able to chown the old mail file on the new user to match the user and was able to open it and get the mail...made my day On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:12 AM, Roland Fritz <roland.fritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello unknown ;) > > Jsilliman schrieb: >> I have read the Squirrelmail documentation that says "Squirrelmail >> keeps no files, data is in the IMAP server"....I don't find this to be >> true with Ubuntu and Squirrelmail because I can copy the file that SQ >> keeps in /var/mail/username and it's all their mail and have restored >> folks's email this way from a clone drive. > > It's not Squirrel that is using this file you mentioned, it's your IMAP > server that's living on the same machine ;) > >> >> However, how can/would I bring this file over to a new server build of >> Squirrelmail because the old server died? I tried to copy the old >> file over and I get a mailbox error when I log in. Is there a >> checksum of some sort? I really need to get this large user's mailbox >> restored/imported, etc. > > If the harddisk of your old server is still alive and bootable, easiest > way would be to start your old server's harddisk in a different machine > and use imapcopy to transfer the mailbox to the new server. If you just > have the copy of the mailfile, there should be a way to integrate this in > another server running the same IMAP demon. But this is a question to be > asked in a imap mailinglist - or try using google ;) > > Good luck > Roland. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb > ----- > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb ----- 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
