After wasting almost 2 days trying to resurrect this one virtual server, I ended up backing up email messages from mail domains externally - via Outlook PST. Deleting the virtual server that was causing issues, and then created a new virtual server. I restored my website (Joomla) from the kickstart script, and then reloaded email into Outlook client, which then sync’d up all my IMAP folders. This issue is solved. It seems there was some issues in the old configuration pointing to old records, folders, etc that did not exist after experimenting for a while. Finally to answer the ultimate question, no, email from other domains existing in your Virtualmin server is affected by a deletion of another existing virtual server. My theory on the genesis of this issue occurred by my lack of experience when first deploying Virtualmin a few years ago. I had a website that contained an DNS A record with the same name as the name of another domain (Virtual Server) and some conflicts must have occurred that caused my backups to be flawed. Lesson learned. Still think Virtualmin and their other products are the best tools around!
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