> Christian Rost wrote:
>> KS schrieb:
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I am a total newbee at courier mail system and the only reason I have
>>> to
>>>  know more about it is because my host moved my account from one
>>> machine
>>> to another and now the mail part is not as it was. Now for a bit of
>>> detail:
>>>
>>> New machine: Linux maryland 2.6.9-42.0.8.ELsmp #1 SMP Tue Jan 23
>>> 13:01:26 EST 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>>>
>>> Old machine: Linux stonewall 2.6.18-8.1.3.el5xen #1 SMP Mon Apr 30
>>> 20:58:43 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>>>
>>> My host uses cPanel and courier as the MTA. In the old machine I get a
>>> normal folder listing and my mail messages are there(in webmail Horde).
>>> However, in the new machine, I don't have any of the old mail (mail
>>> before the move) in my inbox. Also I see the various courier folders
>>> when I view it in Horde. I use Thunderbird on my desktop to access the
>>> mail and now Thunderbird refuses to copy sent mail to Sent folder and
>>> says it doesn't exist and can't create it either. Other folders e.g.
>>> Trash is not accessible either - Thunderbird throws an error! SELECT
>>> failed: Can't open mailbox Trash: no such mailbox.
>>>
>>> So I thought that there was some problem during the move and rsynced
>>> the
>>> contents again from the old machine to new machine. However, the
>>> problem
>>> still remains. Any tips on what I can do to get my mail back to normal?
>>>
>>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> how did you rsync the contents? What was the command you used?
>>
> I used the following command:
>
> ~$ rsync -avz ~/mail/domainname.com/username/
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/spider/mail/domainname.com/username/
>
>> Because we consolidated several mail-servers into one big machine, we
>> had to move several MailDirs from the old machines to the new one
>> without any problems, and we took rsync, too. But you need to remember
>> two things,
>>
>> 1. setting approriate User/ Group rights to access the Maildir on the
>> new machine
>> 2. all folders within the Maildir are hidden folders
>>
>> Christian
>
> The user is the same on both machines, and all files are
> username:username on both. The account is a jailshell if it matters. The
> following is what I get from a listing in the directory:
>
> ~/mail/domainname.com/username/$  ls -a
> ./   .Sent/   .mailboxlist         courierimapkeywords/
> courierimapuiddb  maildirsize  tmp/
> ../  .Trash/  courierimaphieracl/  courierimapsubscribed  cur/
>     new/
>
> which shows that not all folders are hidden here. But they are same as
> on the old machine which shows mail normally.
>
> Thanks,
> KS
>
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