Question Manually restore email files

[arahman mahmoud]

Server operating system version

Almalinux

Plesk version and microupdate number

Plesk Obsidian 18.0.57 Update #5

Hello,
I've a Cpanel account with 11 GB emails files,
My Question is, Can i restore email files Manually from cpanel backup to email Directory via Plask FTP or File Manager,?
Thanks

 

[Peter Debik]

You cannot easily extract individual mailboxes from a cPanel backup and successfully "import" these into any existing mail service structure. This is not a Plesk issue. It is related to the way mail and IMAP services store emails and index them.

It is thinkable to extract the data from a cPanel backup (how that is done is explained in the cPanel documentation, e.g. https://support.cpanel.net/hc/en-us...les-from-a-cPanel-backup-with-the-tar-utility), and it is possible to upload mail files into existing mailbox structures, but then you'd still have a lot of work with re-indexing mailboxes, e.g. with Dovecot commands (see the "Importing mails from filesystem" section of Importing mailboxes — Dovecot documentation for details).

It would be much easier to restore the mailbox to the existing panel, then use the free Website Import extension in Plesk to get the free Mail Import tool and simply transfer the mailbox contents from the old mailbox into the new one.