Retrieving emails from a dead server's hard drive

[CLIFFORD ILKAY]

On 01/05/2010 03:22 PM, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
> 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?

Hi William,

Each message is stored as an individual file in Maildir/username/cur. 
Using rsync from the old drive to the new one should work.
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Clifford Ilkay
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