Migrating email accounts via the CLI (from a recovered HDD)

[dingham]

Hi Guys,
I'm try to recover a user account from an old server backup, and whilst I've been able to find & restore most of the user's config & files, I haven't managed to get DA to pick up his old email accounts & the associated mail.

Do I have to re-add email accounts manually?
How do I go about getting it to pick up the mail in the ~/imap/$domain/$user/mail and ~/imap/$domain/$user/Maildir filders?

Cheers,
Doug

 

[dingham]

oops, forgot the stuff in Virtual.
Copying the configs over & reloading the necessary daemons will fix this.

/etc/virtual/$domain/

 

[floyd]

If you have the old hard drive mounted you could have chroot'd to that drive and let DirectAdmin make complete backups.