I had a mail server that was having lots of issues. It had been migrated to the toaster but was just not stable so I reinstalled os and toaster. The old mail was backed up (using rsync) and I thought it would be relativetly easy to bring the mail back. My thoughts were to get new server up, recreate the accounts then copy mail files back over, even if i had to do it one by one (i was desperate). I have created one account and am now trying to move mail files back with no success. For old mail that was in the inbox was 'redated' to when i move the mail files. Second the folders show up that i had before but do not have any mail in them. The .subfolder dir is there.
Any suggestions or opions about how I might best accomplish this?
Sorry to have clutterd the list.
The problem was permissions. The files i transferred were owned by root (because of the transfer). i changed owner to vpopmail:vchkpw and the mail was visible via imap.