How to subscribe users folders

Question

Hi,
I have got a problem trying to subscribe users folders.
Here is my case.
I migrate from Netscape sun messaging server to JES2005Q1.
I transfert mailboxes from the old server to the new one.
I d'like to subscribe all user to their folder, so that they are not affected by migration.
To do so I use
mboxutil -l > mboxlist
I extracted a list of all folders and for each login I created login.sub in each mailbox
Here is an example of store.sub for rbaud user :
user/rbaud
user/rbaud/Exemple
user/rbaud/Sent
user/rbaud/Trash
user/rbaud/r�ponse
user/rbaud/test
Then I reconstruct -r -f and every thing was right except for "r�ponse" folder because of accent.
Some users complain about diseaperance of all folders with accent.
Trying to fix the case I notice that I should have encode folders name like :
r&AOk-ponse
It looks like utf7-imap encoding
So my question is :
Is there a command to subscribe any folder for every users
Or how can I translate "r�ponse" in "r&AOk-ponse"
I hope my explanation was clear enough.
Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

You 're right, my users used the "subscribe" function
in their mail clients, for folders with accent.
But I will have to do other migrations and I was
asked to find a solution so that users need not to
subscribe their folders after migration.
I used "rsync" to download
old_server/.../primary/=user/* in new
server/.../primary/=user/Right. You missed the mboxlist directory. You should include that in your migration. Subscriptions and such are stored there.
Simply moving the partitions over isn't sufficient. You can recover much of the data with
reconstruct -m
reconstruct -r
but that doesn't get it all. Moving the mboxlist database is important....
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There is no store.sub in their mailboxes. So I tried
to build them, before creating databases with
reconstruct -r -f
relinker
start-msgOk, that's not quite the correct process.
First, the store process MUST be running whenever you do any reconstruct.
Second, you needed to run reconstruct -m FIRST, before the reconstruct -r, as the database had no entries for any folders.
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You said "When I did this same migration, all my
subscriptions came along with the mail", but how did
you do without store.sub in mailboxes ? Easily.
There are SUPPORTED methods, unlike the one you chose.
imsbackup/imsrestore is the route I elected to take. That gets everything.
MoveUser is another route that works well. Again, it gets everytihngs.
If you had taken the database, too, you likely would have had no problem.
If you had run reconstruct -m first, likely you would have had no problem.
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Thanks Jay.