Where are my "old" mails?

I had to re-configure our OpenDirectory Server; so all users in the LDAP Database have been deleted. (of course)
(I deleted the OpenDirectory Master and set up the OD Master again)
OK - I re-created all users and configured them like in the settings before - no problem!
But all emails of each user got deleted as well. (IMAP)
My question:
Does the mails still exist on the server (somewhere e.g. in /var/spool/...), or are they really deleted permanently?
Thanks in advance - Chris

I've found a solution:
NOTE: Before you perform the following steps, you must be logged in as the root user!
All mails of the Mail-Server are stored in the directory /Library/Server/Mail/Data/mail
The only problem is, that the name of the folders inside this directory contains only numbers and letters.
(e.g. 7C493120-D5S3-2A48-391-8G6B7E91F601)
So the only challenge is, that you find the correct folder, which contains the mails of the desired user.
As a little trick, you can open each folder and take a look into the cur directory.
This directory contains one file for each mail. Again, these filenames contains only numbers and letters.
When you open such a file, you can see the header and contents of each mail.
So it's easier to identify which folder belongs to which user!
That's it!

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