Zimbra mail box recrovery from crash

Description: Here I have explain how we can recover emails in zimbra and  How we can add emails to new servers from mailbox directory backup.

Procedure: 

• First you need to find  mail id for users in source server. You can find using below mysql command

# su zimbra
# mysql -e "SELECT id,comment FROM zimbra.mailbox;

• You will get username and mailbox id on screen.
• You need to setup zimbra on new server and create users in new destination server
• You can also find mail box id for one user using below command on running zimbra server

$ zmprov getMailboxInfo user1@domain.com
mailboxId: 2
quotaUsed: 0

• Copy mails from source server from respective location [i.e. /opt/zimbra/store/0/2/msg/0]

Note: In given location 2 is store id of user which found using mysql query [/opt/zimbra/store/0/2/msg/0]

• After copy mails make sure to change permission for zimbra user using below command

# chown zimbra.zimbra  /opt/zimbra/store/0/2/msg/0

• After set permission on destination server you need to add emails to mailbox for respective user using below procedure

#su zimbra
$ zmmailbox
mobx> authenticate 
user@domain.com password 
mbox user@domain.com> addMessage INBOX /opt/zimbra/store/0/2/msg/0

Note: /opt/zimbra/store/0/2/msg/0 is the path to the destination mailbox

• You will received info message for mails added in mailbox. Login with user and check emails are showing in mailbox.