Used MAILBFR and now my database is gone!!

Question

OK, I've been having trouble with one of the mail accounts on the server today so I followed the guidance around here and ran mailbfr. I did a backup first, then a -f, and th databases of all users disappeared. Don't panic, I thought, I have a backup. I've run a -r and is appears to run but the Inboxes are still empty. The directory that mailbfr created is about the right size for four users, 90MB, but it does not appear to have restored.
There's nothing obviously wrong in the terminal output.
Any advice gratefully received, I am currently calm...
Gordon.

Answer 1

I was wrong to say that the
/private/var/spool/imap/user folder was empty, I just
couldn't see the folders using Snax
What is Snax?
You should be using the terminal and have root access. Using anything else (even the finder) can make matters only worse. And since you did use Snax (whatever that may be), I advise you use diskutil to chek permission on your server.
The account folders are there
(and full of files) but as stated if you run mailbfr
-f they disappear as far as the mail client is
concerned.
As I said before mailbfr did definitely not touch them. And there is no reason why it should.
Did you check with a different client or Wenmail. You probably have a client and not a server issue and risk "blowing" up your server for nothing
Copying over the folders must just be
having the effect of replacing an index file,
Of course.
presumably corrupt in the case of my account.
Doubt it at this point, because mailbfr would have sorted the corruption.
As stated above, try setting up a different client.
It may be significant that the accounts do not appear
in the Maintenance/Accounts window of Server Admin
which does suggest that something is 'not quite
right' with the system.
It's not significant. SA only shows accounts that got their quota file set. As I mentioned before you can safely ignore SA.
I don't recall messing round
with the settings, though.
You don't recall or you are sure you didn't?