On Sun, 2011-05-22 at 07:27 +0200, Kamil Jońca wrote: > >>> Um. :( Files were created about 2 months ago. It was certainly 1.x, but > >>> now it is hard to say, what exactly version it was. > >> > >> But question is open: Can I (and how) restore mails from so old backup? > > > > Dovecot v2.0 should be able to read v1.x's dbox files. If it can, it can > > restore the backups. The only difference I can think of is that in some > > version I changed the default to have dbox save everything under > > "mailboxes/" directory. If your backups don't use that directory, you can > > use something like: > > > > doveadm import sdbox:~/Mail/dbox-temp:MAILBOXDIR= "#Dbox" mailbox > > spamcop/reports > > > Unfortunately neither debian 2.0.12 nor 2.0.13 version can import > these. Strange thing is that message "Invalid dbox header size" is > printed after creating "dovecot-uidvalidity" and dovecot-index* files > for source dbox, u.* files are not read at all.
Oh. I think it's entirely possible that current v2.0 can't really read v1.x dbox without giving errors..
