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Hi guys,
Very urgently need help!
Last night my hard drive crashed running 10.4.11 Server, on a dual 2.0 Mac G5... I tried Disk Utility and Drive Genius - which both report the disk being fine. But upon startup the drive just freezes about 5 minutes after the login screen. I fear the main system has become corrupt, not necessarily a mechanical problem. I can still access all information on the previous system drive.
I have since started the computer from a backup from 3 days ago and is working fine. How would I access the IMAP accounts of my users to import the 3 days worth of messages that are currently on the other hard drive? I basically need to merge two inboxes?
Please someone say this is possible!!
Many thanks in advance,
Tommy in London.

Assuming default locations, your mails are stored in /var/spool/imap/user/usernames
You could copy the messages from the broken system's directory into the one you are currently using.
There are some pitfalls though:
-You will have to reconstruct the mail database loosing read/unread flags
-Messages are numbered files ending with a dot. It is possible that you may have different messages with the same number, thus overwriting one.
Alternatively:
-mount the disk with the broken system on the running server
-point Cyrus to the imap database and stores on it
-connect with your mail client(s) and download mail
-point Cyrus back to the boot disk and unmount the external drive
HTH,
Alex

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