Retrieving emails from a dead server's hard drive

William O'Higgins Witteman william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
Tue Jan 5 20:22:01 UTC 2010


Just before New Years my server at home suffered a non-recoverable
hardware failure - perhaps it couldn't bear to face a new year.  The
motherboard or something closely related to it has "gone wrong".

That's not the end of the world, or the end of my data.  I used the
backup from the morning of the event to recreate the machine's functions
on my desktop, and I'll be restoring the websites over the next few
days.  It only took a few minutes to set up my mailserver, and mail is
once again getting delivered.

Where I would like advice is in the recovery of email.  Some of the
email users had not checked their mail between the 25th and the 31st,
and their mail is still sitting on the hard drive from the old server,
now in an enclosure.  It is in maildir format.  I would like to move it
to their active account, or redeliver it, but I am not sure how.  Any
suggestions?

(For interest's sake, when I could get the machine to POST it beeps,
launches into the BIOS, and then the screen goes squizzy.)
-- 

yours,

William

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