IMAP folders not showing up after ensim transfer

I'm sure there are lots of posts on this but after searching for a while i didn't find the solution.

I have just done a transfer from an ensim server.

The customer uses IMAP for his email and has created lots of folders for them.

The folders have been transfered across but no longer show up when he logs in. He is using thunderbird to view his emails.

There are some large files in /home/username/ with the rest in /home/username/mail/domain.co.uk/emailuser/

 

No they do not show up in any of the webmail programs. I wonder if the files are in the wrong location of have the wrong permissions.

I'll try accessing it myself using outlook and create new folders to see what happens to them etc. If i can work out where the new ones are and their setting I may be able to apply it to the old ones.

If there is anything else you think i should try please let me know.

 

Ok I've done some intensive testing in outlook, thunderbird and redcube and have worked out the following.

All three programs use the same method but effectively each of the email folders are found in /home/marine/mail/domain.co.uk/username and are basically a folder with a few subfolders one of which contains the emails as individual files.

Ensim creates a single file which contains all the emails which are saved in /home/virtual/site##/fst/home/usrname on the original server and end up in /home/username after the transfer. There is no directory structure they are just single files for each folder.

I've tried moving one of the ensim mail files to /home/marine/mail/domain.co.uk/username but despite many folder re syncs they do not show up.

From what I can see the folders need to be recreated then the large email files need to be broken up into individual files with the appropriate names then put into the cur file of the relevant folders.

I need an automated way to do this.

 

It was done using the cpanel transfer system..

I tried running the conversion script from the the cpanel admin but had no luck.

It appears the script only runs within "/home/username/mail/" but even the one that I moved there did not work.. The ones in /home/username/ were not touched but I think they are in maildir format but needs the physical files/folders..

I've moved a second file to /home/username/mail/domain.co.uk/username and tried at again with no change.

 

Currently the server is using the Courier mailserver. I'm not sure if this makes any difference but I'll convert it to Dovecot tonight.

 

As suspected it didn't make any difference.