Anyone reading my previous post.
An unbelievable thing happened about 2 minutes after I wrote my last host headed posting.
The best Zimbra employee - you may have seen him JHolder sent me a private message and said 'if you let me ssh into your server I will sort it out for you'.
Can you believe that - I was amazed as John and I chatted over iChat and basically he saved my skin.
From a few hacked about folders John carefully and respectfully, worked his magic fixing permissions; renaming files and folders and copying files across.
Occasionally John would pop up on the messenger and say 'have you got this file laying around' and 'have you got the install files at hand'. I only to willing supplied the necessary watching in ore as the master worked.
Feeling, as he put so well, 'like I now have egg all over my face'.
So time passed......
I was watching and waiting....
then John said if you run #tail -f /tmp/zmsetup.log.1964 you can watch the install process...can you believe it - I couldn't.
Then he said 'OK see if you can login' al the users and all the emails are back.
"Where do you want the donation made to John? - You're the man"
"No donations, just promise me two things..
1) Backup
2) Ask us before you post a thread like the one below
"
Well, thanks John - I certainly will.
Another funny thing he said was "If you get this support with the community edition - imagine what you get when you pay"
So I did, and am looking forward to installing my Network Edition any day now.
Thanks again John, I am so glad to still be here - a happy user and reseller of the great Zimbra application.