Restore emails

Question

I tried to restore user's emails but failed to keep the emails already in the inbox. The users are recreated and they have been using the email for several days so there are some emails in their mail boxes. When I restored the old emails from tar file, only old emails I restored listed in the indox.
Here is how I restored the emails:
tar user's old mail fold on old server
cd /primary/=user/72/47/=436209793504641
tar cvf /home/436209793504641.tar .mv 436209793504641.tar to new server
untar user's old mail fold to user's new fold on new server
cd /secondary/=user/72/47/=436209793504641
tar xvf /home/436209793504641.tar
/mail/sbin/reconstruct -p secondary -u 436209793504641 -mThe server version is:
imsimta version
Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)
libimta.so 6.2-3.04 (built 01:43:03, Jul 15 2005)
SunOS mimas 5.10 Generic_137111-08 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V890
Thanks,
Ben

Answer 1

bwang wrote:
I tried to restore user's emails but failed to keep the emails already in the inbox. The users are recreated and they have been using the email for several days so there are some emails in their mail boxes. When I restored the old emails from tar file, only old emails I restored listed in the indox.You should be using imsbackup/imsrestore instead of "tar". The imsrestore command will not overwrite existing messages and will keep email flags (read/deleted/flagged etc.)
imsimta version
Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)
libimta.so 6.2-3.04 (built 01:43:03, Jul 15 2005)
SunOS mimas 5.10 Generic_137111-08 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V890This is a very old version of Messaging Server -- you should be patching to a minimum of 118207-63
Regards,
Shane.