Since my understanding of mail servers is nowhere near as good as Thomas's, what I would do, providing there aren't too many recent emails, is:

• Ask all users to move any filed mails back into their Inbox - each mail will then be a separate .cnm file in the user's folder. Close all clients
• Shut down Mercury
  
• Move the current working folders (everything in  .. MERCURY/MAIL/) to a temporary location
  
• Copy  /MAIL and sub-folders and contents from the old system into the new one, in place of the ones you moved
  
• Copy (not move) all each user's recent .cnm files from the temporary location into their folder on the restored system. Ignore other files.
  
• On restarting, the original stored mail should all be filed where it was 2 weeks ago, and the last 2 weeks will be in the inbox ready to file.

Mail in folders (other than Inbox) is in .pmm files, with .pnm files as indexes. I wouldn't try editing these - but putting mail back in the inbox during the copy gets round that.

If for any reason it doesn't work, you can replace the recent mail from the temporary location and you're back where you were.

Chris

Hi

 I have reloaded a Windows 2003 server which has Mercury32 installed from a backup image. This is an Imap mail system installation. I now need to "import" mail from the old systems hard drive.

I have searched this forum and the web but can not find instructions on how to extract/import mail items from old folders.

Does anyone know how to do this? Or where I can find a tool to do it?

Thank you

Wayne Methorst

Please can you clarify the question?

If you've reloaded the whole Mercury folder and its subfolders, the mail should all be there, in folders within ...MERCURY/MAIL/

Or do you want to import mail from a different installation - in which case, is that from another Mercury installation, a different IMAP server, a POP3 client or something else?

Chris

Thanks Chris....

I want to import mail from another identical Mercury Installation. This installation is on a hard drive that has a problem and will not boot into the Operating system - windows server 2003

I can see all the mail folders when I connect this hard drive via a USB adaptor, ie I can browse the NTFS file structures, so I want to extract the email and merge it into the working system and hopefully with the option to not merge duplicates.

Wayne

> I want to import mail from another identical Mercury Installation.
> This installation is on a hard drive that has a problem and will not
> boot into the Operating system - windows server 2003
>
> I can see all the mail folders when I connect this hard drive via a
> USB adaptor, ie I can browse the NTFS file structures, so I want to
> extract the email and merge it into the working system and hopefully
> with the option to not merge duplicates.

Copy the entire folder structure over to the new system including the Mercury program. Put it on the same drive and then run the program.

If there is existing mail though the merging of the data is another story entirely. 

Thank you for your reply Thomas

 The current working Mercury has been operational for two weeks, so, can I export the new mail before I bring across the older mail system? Does Mercury have an export capability like exchange does with exmerge.

Wayne

The current working Mercury has been operational for two weeks, so, can I export the new mail before I bring across the older mail system?

Does Mercury have an export capability like exchange does with exmerge.

No it does not.  However Mercury/32 does have a IMAP4 capability so that you can run and connect to the other Mercury installation and then move the mail via IMAP4 into the correct account using any IMAP4 client.  You could also just leave it running to service the old data via IMAP4. 

This means you would copy the old installation to a directory on the new server (say MERC_OLD) and run two instances of Mercury.  The added server would use something like 8143 for the IMAP4 server so the users could access both if you are currently using IMAP4.