Restore backup

[leamasuero]

Hi!
I successfully backed up an email account. Now, I would like to restore it locally (using any email client) in order to look for old mails. How can I achieve this?

I know this is not an "issue", but it would be great to add some documentation about this topic (restoration) in the readme.
Thanks!

[loppanloppis]

This what worked for me :

Once all files were downloaded, they were saved in the proper directory structure but with my hostname as file extension.

I take absolutely no responsibility for this, but on Linux, running this command worked : (make sure to backup your backups before you run this :) :

find . -type f -name "*.myhostname" -exec rename 's/.myhostname$/.eml/' '{}' ;

Replace "myhostname" with whatever filename extension your files got.

I could then successfully import the .eml files into my mail client (I'm using Thunderbird myself).

I think this is a great tool, I'm a fan of backups, and it's always nice to keep some extra backups laying around :)

All my best

Peter