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Our free tools for Mac OS X Server Mail Services – spamtrainer and mailbfr – have been downloaded more than 100’000 times and are helping system administrators looking after Mac OS X Servers from 10.3 to 10.13.

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Our free tutorials and whitepapers related to Mac OS X Server Mail and Web Services have been downloaded more than 500’000 times. The tutorials are available for a wide range of topics and for Mac OS X Server versions from 10.4 to 10.13.

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While we are happy to provide free support through our Tutorials, FAQs and the occasional e-mail advice, it cannot replace personalised support. A professional can fix in a matter of hours what could take you days of trial and error.

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How long does a backup take?

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This depends mostly on the amount of mailboxes and mails you have. Bear in mind, that mail is usually composed of many many small files. Many small files take longer to copy than one large file. A full (or first) backup takes much longer than successive (incremental) backups. The amount of time necessary for a […]

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After i run “mailbfr -f” to fix my cyrus database, all mail shows up as unread.

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Unfortunately we haven’t found a safe way around this issue yet. You’ll have to live with it. Important: "mailbfr -f" should only be used if your database is corrupted, not just for the sake of it and not just to recover a single user. If you need to fix a single user, issue "mailbfr -m […]

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Should I use full, incremental or rotate for backups?

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There are pros and cons for each method. Again this really depends on the amount of mail and mailboxes you have. Although we cannot decide for you, we favor “rotation”. Rotation will make a full backup per week and just add changes on a daily basis.

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mailbfr thinks the path I have given is not correct?

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Most likely your path contains spaces. This is generally not advisable. If you cannot take the spaces out of your path for some reason, you will need to "escape" them.

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I restored my mail server. Now I see messages/mailboxes that were deleted?

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mailbfr does an incremental backup by default. So unless you change the backup location regularly you may end up with old messages. This is by design otherwise you couldn’t go back to an old messsage a user might request. If you do not wish this behavior, use the "full" or "rotate" option.

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