cyrus-imapd/cyrus-imapd.cron-daily

#!/bin/sh
#
# This file is run on a daily basis to perform a backup of your
# mailbox list which can be used to recreate mailboxes.db from backup.
# Restore is done using ctl_mboxlist after uncompressing the file.

BACKDIR="/var/lib/imap/backup"
MBOXLIST="${BACKDIR}/mboxlist"
ROTATE=6

# fallback to su if runuser not available
if [ -x /sbin/runuser ]; then
  RUNUSER=runuser
else
  RUNUSER=su
fi

# source custom configuration
if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/cyrus-imapd ]; then
  . /etc/sysconfig/cyrus-imapd
fi

[ -x /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/ctl_mboxlist ] || exit 0
[ -f /var/lib/imap/db/skipstamp ] || exit 0

# rotate mailbox lists
seq $[ $ROTATE - 1 ] -1 1 | while read i; do
  [ -f ${MBOXLIST}.${i}.gz ] && mv -f ${MBOXLIST}.${i}.gz ${MBOXLIST}.$[ $i + 1 ].gz
done
[ -f ${MBOXLIST}.gz ] && mv -f ${MBOXLIST}.gz ${MBOXLIST}.1.gz

# export mailboxes.db
$RUNUSER - cyrus -c "umask 077 < /dev/null ; /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/ctl_mboxlist -d | gzip > ${MBOXLIST}.gz"

exit 0
# EOF