I have got the responsability to recover some data from a old mandrake server, as far I as know the users were getting their emails from a Imap server, then other company took control of the server and did remove mandrake linux and installed windows 2003. The disks of mandrake are still there, and I was able to recover the old documents and so on. The problem I am having now is that I dont know how to recover the old emails folders, I have all of them in a folder, but does not have any extension and I dont know how I can import these files into a outlook or thunderbird format. Anyone can give any tips?
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Imap Old Emails
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ericbrunson
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It depends on what flavor of IMAP server it was running. Some use maildir, some use mbox, some use a proprietary format. If they are single files with no extension, I'd bet on mbox, in which case you can open them in a text editor and read them.
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ericbrunson
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Then you need to find out what the old imap server was. Did you try "file mailboxname" to see if the system recognizes the file format?
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