> On 29/10/2019 20:29 Mark | Small World Systems via dovecot > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I have a Linix server that won't boot. I've patched in a live CD and mounted > the original HDDs so I can browse the files using SSH. > I am trying to find where all my customer emails are stored so that I can > (hopefully) copy them off this "dead" server onto a new server which is also > running cPanel and Dovecot. > Does anyone know where Dovecot stores emails for each email account when it > runs under cPanel? > I can see a directory called /home/<cpanel username>/mail/<domain name>/<mail > username> > (I've used <xxxxx> in place of the actual text to obviscate the actual user > information). > If I navigate to that directory I can see lots of interesting sub directories > e.g. cur, new and tmp plus some files such as: > dovecot.index.cache, dovecote.index, dovecote-uidlist > But then I'm stumped. I was hoping to find a big fat directory that contained > all the mail files. > Is anyone able to tell me what I need to copy across to get all the old > emails off the "dead" server onto the new one? > Thank you.
Hi, you can copy the directory structure "as-is" to new dovecot. The format you are looking is called 'maildir++' format, and is supported by dovecot out of the box. The actual mails are under new and cur directories. Just configure dovecot mail_home=/home/cpanel/%Ld/%Lu mail_location=maildir:~/ mail_gid=cpanel mail_uid=cpanel replace cpanel with actual username.... for the rest of the config, you can start with https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/quick_configuration/ Aki
