Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
I don't know what to call what I'm trying to do so I'll explain the
situation.
It was the typical case of too many things going on at the same time and
me in a full-bore-linear-panic over the crashed mail server.
The biggies were:
1) The vmail account created with the wrong UID/GID for the
configuration, and
2) permissions on everything wrong after updating vmail's UID/GID.
This all came about because I kept flipping between a mostly working
test system, the system I was trying to get up, and the crashed system's
files that got their UIDs/GIDs changed while copying them around.
Thanks to you all for the suggestions (clue-sticks?).
Rod
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I had a total complete crash of the Linux-Vserver system that was
hosting a Postfix+Dovecot guest with a three domains and 1-5 accounts
per domain. Lots of mail though.
Before it completely melted down I as able to get to the data (messages)
and save them and the configuration files for both Dovecot and Postfix.
I now have a replacement system up and running and have copied the
directories onto it. I can log in to the accounts but I don't see the
folders (I use Thunderbird as a MUA). Attempts to "subscribe" and
"refresh" the list give me no results. No list of folders.
What should I do?
I'm thinking I could delete the dovecot files:
dovecot.index,
dovecot.index.cache,
dovecot.index.log,
dovecot-uidlist,
subscriptions,
and while I'm at it possibly dovecot-keywords.
Then access the account(s) and Dovecot will rebuild them with the
true/correct information.
Am I heading anywhere near the right direction?
TIA,
Rod
