Re: Is there any to reconstruct a mailbox, if used just have the email files, but none of the original cyrus.* files?

Patrick Boutilier <[email protected]>
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On 1/18/19 5:26 PM, Mark London wrote:
> Hi - Is there any to reconstruct a mailbox, if you just have the email 
> files, but none of the original cyrus.* files?   Don't ask me why, it's 
> a very long story.

I believe you can just recreate the mailbox (using cyradm or similar) 
and then run the reconstruct.


> 
> As an aside, has anyone ever had a situation where emails were los,t 
> when someone used Apple Mail to transfer a lot of files from one folder 
> to another?   We had this happen.   Someone tried to move a years worth 
> of emails,  22K or so, to a new folder.   Only a few files emails ended 
> up in the new folders, and the rest were totally deleted.  I confirmed 
> via my backup logs, that this was the case. The same user tried the same 
> operation the year before, and the same thing happened.   i tried using 
> Thunderbird, and had no problems. Just curious.  Thanks.
> 
> Mark London
> [email protected]
> 
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