pcace Hi, i have had a major problem with my server - i needed to reinstall a new one. the old server had a running mailserver also using dovecot. i really need to reimport my old emails to the new server using mailcow. I never had to restore Mails + i am very new to docker. attached here is the general structure of the old Mailboxes. What would be the way to restore the old mailboxes? (new username + pw is the same as the old one…) Thank you so much for any help!!!
ol2tmx shutdown the system with docker-compose down copy your current vmal folder under /var/lib/docker/volumes/mailcowdockerized_vmail-vol-1/_data# cd /var/lib/docker/volumes/mailcowdockerized_vmail-vol-1/_data# chown -R 5000:5000 ../_data docker-compose up -d -
pcace Hey, thank you for your reply, this is exactly what i did. i am happy that i got all the emails back, with just one Problem: the time i received the mails does not show up correctly :/ Not too bad, but hey, i thought i share it. Thanks tho!!
Dan pcace the time i received the mails does not show up correctly :/ It’s likely the ctime (creation time) or mtime (last modified time) of the files is incorrect. Try copy the files again with the -p or -a options (eg. cp -a /old/path/ var/lib/docker/volumes/mailcowdockerized_vmail-vol-1/_data) which will preserve the timestamps attached to the files.
pcace Dan thanks for your reply, but i now have a mixture of new and old mails - wich i dont want to seperate again… so i will try your method the next time i have a major breakdown 😉 Cheers and thanks!
