Reformatted the Server, Can’t import my old mail store

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[quote] So I had some bad RAM in my server. Of course I didn’t know it at the time. And it kept making the 10.3.5 updater crash. And that last crash did it. My drive was messed up. So I had to reformat and reinstall. Luckily I had a whole slew of fresh backups. But I’m really hung up on the mail. I backed up my mail folder /Library/AppleMailServer folder. That is my mail folder, it contains about 300 MB’s of mail, and I can see all my mail users in there. Yes the mail config in the Server Admin app defaults to /var/spool for mail store. That right there confuses me, because then I got 10.3, I did a fresh install, I didn’t upgrade. So I don’t see how this could be different. But whatever, I change the mail store to /Library/AppleMailServer. And it doesn’t work. And when I look at the error logs, the IMAP server is looking for /Library/AppleMailServer/users/[username], but there is no ‘users’ folder in my AppleMailServer folder. There is a user folder with a different name, and an extra level deep. This is all very confusing, I don’t really know what has changed. But I have about 3000 emails that I really need to get access too again. If you know what I’m doing wrong please let me know. Thanks. OH BTW I use SMTP and IMAP only, no pop.

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That was the story a while back. This was all on 10.3. I had originally been on 10.2 and used the migration tool to go to 10.3. I was making no progress importing this old mail, so I simply set that mail folder .tar aside, and started the mail services from scratch. And its worked superbly every since, except I have a years worth of email I really need to access, but can’t. The format of this AppleMailServer folder appears to be like nothing like what 10.2 or 10.3 use. So I’m very confused, I’m going to include an image of it just so you can get a peak at it, and maybe that might help someone identify just what it is, and how I can now integrate it into my current mail server. Even if I have to set up another temp server and mail server, and using Mail.app, transfer all the emails over like that. As a last resort, i’ll do that. I’m sure there will be many questions… Ask away 😀

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But thats the thing. This isn’t a 10.2 Database. It was originally, but when I first upgraded to 10.3, I ran the migration tool on it, and this DB was running for months under 10.3. So for example when I run the migration tool now, nothing happens. And I’m not sure that if I throw this DB into 10.2, it would be able to read it either?

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Well, I tried installing 10.2Server on another machine, and loading my mail database into it. It didn’t seem to work, some users didn’t work, the ones that did, had the wrong mail user. The only thing I came up with there is that the mail server goes by user # not name, so some were lined up with wrong ones, and some weren’t lined up with anything. But none of that matters because it seemed to only show me mail from before I migrated to 10.3 anyway, so I still need to find some other way to access this mail store. I don’t understand how my 10.3 Install was using this folder in the first place? Its totally not in the default location, and and I customize the mail store location, this folder of mine seems to be in the wrong format 🙁

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MacTroll: Any other ideas? How I can get all my lost mail out of this .tar i’ve got?

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