How can I restore my email/.eml files from a simple copy of my cpanel account?

GM2015

I've had a shared hosting account at bluehost, which I've terminated, but I've tarred my entire account/whole folder, so that I've got everything except for mysql db-s which I don't need.

I've got a bunch of email files in /mail/[email protected] with .Mycustomemailfolder1 to .Mycustomemailfolder100 which I've created back with Outlook for organisation.

I've migrated to zoho and I'm wondering how can I get the eml files they want to import.

I've also got these files in this folder I'm talking about:

date  20:00                17 dovecot-keywords
date  20:02            52,784 dovecot-uidlist
date  12:01                 8 dovecot-uidvalidity
date  12:01                 0 dovecot-uidvalidity.55c1ed06
date  12:58            19,456 dovecot.index
date  20:03           352,188 dovecot.index.cache
date  20:03            16,256 dovecot.index.log
date  12:58            32,804 dovecot.index.log.2
date  12:00               456 dovecot.mailbox.log
date  20:00             4,752 dovecot.mailbox.log.2
date  20:02             2,982 maildirsize
date  20:02              new
date  12:00             3,069 subscriptions
date  20:02              tmp

Wondering what can I do, and I can't find any pointers.

I didn't use any exporters or migrations tools, wish I did.

charlie

Hi,
Thunderbird can open Maildir (the downloaded mail folders what are you have), and after that you can copy these emails to zoho via imap.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/Maildir

GM2015

Just gave this issue and thunderbird a look and your link didn't provide any reference as where to set it. Then googled this But thanks Károly.

We'll see how the importing goes.

charlie said: Hi, Thunderbird can open Maildir (the downloaded mail folders what are you have), and after that you can copy these emails to zoho via imap. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/Maildir

GM2015

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools/

This is just a note for myself, used this to import my [email protected] cpanel raw folder to my "pop local" version of [email protected] on thunderbird.

then opened my same email with imap on thunderbird and am now copying all my old messages to the imap version.

We'll see.

GM2015

Necro, self-bump, call it whatever you want.

Damn icedove(debian fork of thunderbird) doesn't want to import the damn files again.

I think I have my old college software licence details in those email folders...

I also don't remember what option I used with https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools/, so I might be unlucky or just the linux version doesn't have what I used.

Will try wine and thunderbird..

GM2015 said: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools/

This is just a note for myself, used this to import my [email protected] cpanel raw folder to my "pop local" version of [email protected] on thunderbird.

then opened my same email with imap on thunderbird and am now copying all my old messages to the imap version.

We'll see.