Topic: Importing old email from backup?

[askelon]

I backed up my server with backup2ws and reinstalled the server.  I tried restoring the \home\e-smith\files\users\ directory but the email all comes up as from:    with no subject..  Does anyone have any suggestions?

[raem]

I saw this recently, you will probably find that permissions are wrong. For each user check ownership of /Maildir folder and subfolders and files. If required, do something like
chown -R username:username Maildir
for each user

[askelon]

ok Ive worked out whats happening now - I changed the permissions as you said, and yes they were all up the creek..  The problem seems to stem from me extracting the msg files with WinRAR.  It is 0 byting the message files so I copied the .rar images to my server and tried unraring with unrar / rar but it cant open the archives..  Anyone got any suggestions from this point?