[gentoo-server] Cyrus recovery help.

[gentoo-server] Cyrus recovery help.

[Brett Curtis]

I have OpenXchange 7.5 running on Gentoo. Been using it since 7.5  
came out and It has grown to be a really big dependency in our  
company. So I had to buy support mainly for upgrade reasons. This  
also means I had to buy SUSE Linux and end my 'all' gentoo server  
network.

So here is the deal. I backup my cyrus-imap server by stopping the  
server and rsyncing to a machine with a tape drive hooked up to it. A  
fairly common approach to imap backup I think. Anyways now I am  
trying to restore those directories on a different server (SUSE). I  
prefer not to go to this list if I do not have to.

I took the entire /var/spool/imap directory and /var/imap and copied  
it to the new server. Set up the imapd.conf to reflect the correct  
directory structure and tried to reconstruct. No luck I am only  
getting only the MailBoxes and not the actual mails.

What needs to happen for me to get this working?

I have tried the following

su - cyrus su cyrus -c "/usr/lib/cyrus/bin/reconstruct"

  this again built the mailboxes (folders)

then I tried

  su cyrus -c "/usr/lib/cyrus/bin/reconstruct -f -r user/myuser"

and still I can not see mail messages.

the -m option appears to be something I may want but that feature  
seems to be unavailable.

What am I missing?

Thanks,
Brett
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