--On December 18, 2005 3:02:55 PM +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- added a new user "johndoe" with cyradm - did not stop the IMAPd - copied the tree of backuped dirs/files to "/partition/user/johndoe" - chown´ed these files/dirs to cyrus/imap - su cyrus - /path-to/reconstruct -C /etc/imapd.conf -r -f user.johndoe - changed the ACL of user.johndoe* (which may be obsolote because reconstruct used the found values!) --> all seems to be there, visible by the IMAP client! --> move the mailfolders to the final destination (with IMAP client) The last step could be omitted if I would have worked directly under the destination user, which I did not trust in.
If you're using quota's you'll need to rebuild your quota database/information too, i think the cyrus tool name is quotareconstruct (debian renames them because they can clash since they're far too common a name)
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