mail backup solution?

[Chuck Swiger]

Pat Maddox wrote:
> On 3/13/06, Chuck Swiger <cswiger at mac.com> wrote:
[ ... ]
>> The two most common styles of mailboxes are mbox and maildir, and both of those
>> can be backed up at the filesystem level using dump, tar, or anything else.
> 
> I've got it set up using maildir.  In the past to back up the mail I
> just copied the files.  At one point I had to restore from the backup,
> so I just copied the files back into the original location.  Logging
> in via imap though, there were no emails to be found.  I've gotten
> vague "I think you just copy the files" responses, but that didn't
> work in my case, and I'm not sure what I need to do.

Did you take a look at an actual mailbox file and confirm that it contained the
messages you expected?

Did you restart the IMAP daemon after doing the restore?

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-Chuck