[Dovecot] Missing IMAP folders after Server reboot

[Eoin Kennedy]

Hi,

That's what I'm looking for at the moment.

Thanks,
Eoin 

-----Original Message-----
From: dovecot-bounces+ekennedy=sherlings.com at dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces+ekennedy=sherlings.com at dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Scott Silva
Sent: 29 May 2009 23:13
To: dovecot at dovecot.org
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Missing IMAP folders after Server reboot

on 5-29-2009 6:51 AM Eoin Kennedy spake the following:
> Hi,
>  
> Here is the situation, I hope somebody can help me.
>  
> Our Email server running ubuntu 8.04.1 and dovecot 1.0.10 rebooted, and when it came back up the dovecot config had changed.
>  
> Prior to the reboot, users stored their emails and folders in /var/mail/~username.
>  
> Then the config became /var/mail/username for the main Inbox and /home/~username/mail for Folders.
>  
> Now, none of the folders that users had created in their IMAP account are visible, and their contents are not in the main Inbox file.
> For example, the Drafts folder was there prior to the reboot, and now it had to be created in /home/username afterwards.
> These folders were not subfolders of the Inbox, but of the main IMAP root.
>  
> All users were running Thunderbird as their client.
>  
> Can they be recovered?
>  
I doubt that your mail is gone, somebody just changed where dovecot looks for
it. Do you have a backup of your old config file?





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