[Dovecot] Restoring backup?
I have understood correctly when thinking that all I need to do in order to restore mails, is to just copy the old maildir folder to the location where mail_location is pointing to and dovecot will find all the mails and display the old mails?
Regards,
BTJ
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Bjørn T Johansen said the following on 18/08/09 21:44:
I have understood correctly when thinking that all I need to do in order to restore mails, is to just copy the old maildir folder to the location where mail_location is pointing to and dovecot will find all the mails and display the old mails?
That's exactly what I do when I restore emails.
Note that some mail clients need to restart in order to be aware of the restored mails.
Ciao, luigi
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On 8/18/2009, Bjørn T Johansen (btj@havleik.no) wrote:
I have understood correctly when thinking that all I need to do in order to restore mails, is to just copy the old maildir folder to the location where mail_location is pointing to and dovecot will find all the mails and display the old mails?
That should be it...
Also be sure they have the correct permissions (depends on your setup)...
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Best regards,
Charles
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Bjørn T Johansen
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Charles Marcus
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Luigi Rosa