[baz-the-brit]

Hi Uxbod

Thanks for responding.

Got to admit I'm a Windows guy really (..ducks to avoid flying beer bottles..) and a complete newbie at Linux, so pls have patience with my ignorance.

Well there was no 'mailbox.log' under /var/log/ directory and when I tried to access the /opt/zimbra/log/mailbox.log I got Permission Denied. I was logged in as root then changed user to zimbra. In fact I get Permission Denied when I try to look at any logs it seems.

Actually to save time, the main thing I need to be able to do is extract all existing mail, copy it to disc and then probably have someone come in and install a shiny new version of ZCS ( we have 4.0 or 4.1 now I think). Because 'zmcontrol start' fails now - SLDAP fails to start. I think the whole thing is falling apart.

It appears that mail is currently stored in /opt/zimbra/store/0/ within a bunch of other numbered directories. Also, seems there is nothing in the backup directory... /opt/zimbra/backup and nowhere can I find zmbackup or zmrestore commands, so the daily backups we were promised are happening, well, probably aren't. I have to try to rescue and preserve the two years worth of email from 20 employees is what it boils down to. (We have temporarily switched to a hosted mail service to keep things going in the meantime.)

So here's a question - can I simply copy the entire contents of the message store directories to another folder, burn it to CD or USB drive, then bring them into another program? Or is it not that straight forward?

cheers
b-t-b