[Dovecot] Missing IMAP folders after Server reboot
Eoin Kennedy
ekennedy at sherlings.com
Sun May 31 17:57:43 EEST 2009
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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