On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 08:04 +0100, John Moorhouse wrote: > I've recently had a oops with the system I was running dovecot on so > have had to move it to a new machine, I've been able to retrieve the > mbox files from the old machine, built the new machine and over wrote > the new mbox files with the old one in maildir, connecting to the server > via imap woeks but I can only see the mail in the inbox from the old > mbox files, emails in sub directories (the sub directories arn't there), > is there some command I need to run to get it to pass the mbox file to > find the folders or it there another file I need to transfer form the > old machine.
If you only copied mails from /var/mail/* then those are only INBOXes. The others are probably in users' ~/mail/ directory. > (I'm assuming that all the emails for a user, including those in > subfolders are within the single mbox file, particularly as I'm is very > large) They're not. There's one mbox file per folder.
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