[Dovecot] Crash test :)

[Timo Sirainen]

On 21.5.2011, at 1.21, Kamil Jońca wrote:

>>>> 2. when I move dbox-Mails to proper place I got:
>>>> 
>>>> doveadm(kjonca): Error: sdbox /home/kjonca/Mail/dbox-temp/spamcop/reports/mailboxes/INBOX/dbox-Mails: Invalid dbox header size
>>> 
>>> What Dovecot version? I think this is fixed already.
>> 
>> Um. :(  Files were created about 2 months ago. It was certainly 1.x, but
>> now it is hard to say, what exactly version it was.
> 
> But question is open: Can I (and how) restore mails from so old backup?

Dovecot v2.0 should be able to read v1.x's dbox files. If it can, it can restore the backups. The only difference I can think of is that in some version I changed the default to have dbox save everything under "mailboxes/" directory. If your backups don't use that directory, you can use something like:

doveadm import sdbox:~/Mail/dbox-temp:MAILBOXDIR= "#Dbox" mailbox spamcop/reports