moving mails inside the store directory

[Federico]

Hi all,

I have this kind of trouble: I have to recover a mailbox from a corrupted backup of Zimbra (Release 6.0.1_GA_1816.DEBIAN5_64 DEBIAN5_64 FOSS edition).

The original mailbox (~850MB) has the store located in /opt/zimbra/store/0/18/

I need to move email inside this account to /opt/zimbra/store/0/89/

I can't use imapsync or something because the account with id 18 is gone: no logins are associated with it and there are no trails of it in the database, so I have to operate at filesystem level.

I tried to copy (cp -R) the content of /opt/zimbra/store/0/18/msg/* into /opt/zimbra/store/0/89/msg/ and then reindexing the account, but it fails with:

# zmprov rim account@domain status
ERROR: service.NOT_IN_PROGRESS (mbox e119ff5c-745f-4c2f-bcb7-0ba1fb04f326 is not currently running action ReIndex)


Any suggestions will be appreciated.

[ArcaneMagus]

That "error" you posted actually just means that the ReIndex process isn't running. You should see it when you open the ReIndex dialog, and when it finishes reindexing the account. But this won't solve your problem as simply placing message files in the store and reindexing an account doesn't put them in the database for that account.

What you are looking for is "zmmailbox addMessage". You can see the usage for that from "zmmailbox help message", and examples of it's use by searching the forum.

[Federico]

Thank you for the reply!

So, i tried zmmailbox but I obtain the same results of zmlmtpinject, that is to have all the emails into the Inbox, losing the original source directories.

Is there a way recover the complete directory structure?

[veronica]

If mysql entry is gone you cant do nything rather than placing in INBOX.

[Federico]

Ok, thank you!

[ArcaneMagus]

If you had done a search for examples, or ran `zmmailbox help message`, you would have found that `zmmailbox addMessage` allows you to specify the destination folder
Here is a thread that has an example script that probably does most of what you are looking for already: Maildir to Zimbra