Getting old mail into IMAP

[Anonymous]

I have a lot of old mail, in files with headers – one mail per file (exactly as in the /spool/imap/user folders). How do I get this into the new IMAP database?

I’ve rad some info that indicates that you use /usr/bin/cyrus/bin/deliver but there doesn’t seem to be much info on the syntax to use.

TIA

— Clive

[samv]

I had some success using a tip in another post here

I moved the mailbox to the /var/spool/imap/users directory using the mv command. Make sure the privileges (ownership and permissions) are correct on the folder. It is rather difficult changing folder and file permissions in the Finder (No read/write access to the /var/spool/imap/user folder in Finder).

I used chown to change the owner of the folder and files to ‘cyrusimap’:
sudo chown -R cyrusimap /var/spool/imap/user/mailboxname

I found the folder already belonged to the ‘mail’ group but you should check this:
sudo ls -la /var/spool/imap/user

Delete every file like “cyrus.*” in the mailbox.
sudo rm /var/spool/imap/user/mailboxname/cyrus.cache
sudo rm /var/spool/imap/user/mailboxname/cyrus.header
sudo rm /var/spool/imap/user/mailboxname/cyrus.index

Reconstruct a single mailbox with the following command:
sudo -u cyrusimap /usr/bin/cyrus/bin/reconstruct -r user/mailboxname

Or reconscrut all mailbox with the data:
sudo -u cyrusimap /usr/bin/cyrus/bin/reconscruct -r user/*

This restored the In Box (and the messages in the In Box). Woohooo! Unfortunately, this DID NOT restore IMAP folders and mail contained within. I wonder why? Does anyone have ideas?

The reconstruct command should probably be run with incoming and outgoing mail suspended first.

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