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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