Recovering emails from "dead" server

[MIhai Badici]

You found the right thing :)

15 years ago yes, it was a file but people wasn't sending mpeg4 on mail :)

On 10/29/19 8:29 PM, Mark | Small World Systems via dovecot wrote:
>
> I have a Linix server that won't boot.  I've patched in a live CD and 
> mounted the original HDDs so I can browse the files using SSH.
>
> I am trying to find where all my customer emails are stored so that I 
> can (hopefully) copy them off this "dead" server onto a new server 
> which is also running cPanel and Dovecot.
>
> Does anyone know where Dovecot stores emails for each email account 
> when it runs under cPanel?
>
> I can see a directory called /home/<cpanel username>/mail/<domain 
> name>/<mail username>
>
> (I've used <xxxxx> in place of the actual text to obviscate the actual 
> user information).
>
> If I navigate to that directory I can see lots of interesting sub 
> directories e.g. cur, new and tmp plus some files such as:
>
> dovecot.index.cache, dovecote.index, dovecote-uidlist
>
> But then I'm stumped.  I was hoping to find a big fat directory that 
> contained all the mail files.
>
> Is anyone able to tell me what I need to copy across to get all the 
> old emails off the "dead" server onto the new one?
>
> Thank you.
>
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