[Gloucs] Backing up IMAP mailbox from Dovecot?

[Keith Edmunds]

On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:30:13 +0100, andrew at aoakley.com said:

> What is the simplest way to back up this one account only (with 
> subfolders), such that it can be reliably reloaded on to Dovecot server 
> on a freshly reinstalled machine, please? 

Are you using Maildir or mbox files? The former have one file per mail,
the latter one file per folder. It's likely that Maildir files are held
somewhere like ~/Maildir and mbox files are held in ~/Mail (but neither is
fixed in stone). You need to backup either ~/Maildir or ~/Mail as
appropriate. Note that if you have Maildir files, the folders are
directories with hidden names (they start with a dot).

If the above doesn't make sense then shout!

Keith

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Keith Edmunds

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