Reinstall Server and restore mail
Our 10.4.9 server won't boot. It's been determined that there is something wrong when the boot drive mounts for read/write - it kernel panics. I have been able to mount the server drive on another mac via target disk mode and copy the entire hard drive.
If I erase and reinstall Mac OS X server on the internal drive, what is the easiest way to restore our mail services to as they were - how do I bring back the mail folders from the copy of the boot drive I made.
Thanks
Intel Xserve Dual 2.0 Mac OS X (10.4.9)
Assuming you kept all default locations you will need to restore the contents of:
Complete directories:
/var/imap
/var/spool/imap
/etc/postfix
/etc/mail
/etc/squirrelmail
/etc/spam (if you have it)
Single files:
/etc/imapd.conf
/etc/amavisd.conf
/etc/cyrus.conf
/etc/clamav.conf
Make sure mail services are stopped while copying files over.
Also, since you had disk issues, most likely your mail database is corrupted and needs to be fixed.
To fix download mailbfr and run "mailbfr -f".
It's available here: http://osx.topicdesk.com/downloads
HTH,
Alex
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