While recreating the E-mail account its always good to take the backup for existing E-mails, so that we can easily restored e-mails under the newly created E-mail account. To create the E-mail account backup login in to the shell as a root user and follow the steps one by one.
cd /home/cPanel-user/mail/your-domain-name.com
mkdir emailbackup
cd email-account-for-which-you-want-backup
cp -p * ../emailbackup -R
Now check all the E-mails are copied under the emailbackup or not.
ll /home/cPanel-user/mail/your-domain-name.com/emailbackup
If all the E-mails are copied successfully than delete the E-mail account from the cPanel and recreate the E-mail account as per your requirement from cPanel
cPanel >> E-mail Accounts >> create E-mail account
Now restore the E-mils under newly create E-mail account.
cd /home/cPanel-user/mail/your-domain-name.com/emailbackup
cp * ../new-e-mail-account -pR
want to replace – type “yes”
Now check all the e-mails present under the new E-mail account or not and if you have any problem run the following script to correct the permission ownership for E-mails.
/scripts/mailperm –verbose
