[Dovecot] undelete messages?

Cory Coager ccoager at utechproducts.com
Mon Oct 1 18:51:24 EEST 2007


Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 10:45 -0400, Cory Coager wrote:
>   
>> I'm using the lazy expunge plugin as configured in:
>> http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Lazyexpunge
>>
>> The page claims users can undelete messages without assistance from a 
>> sysadmin.  How is this accomplished?  When I try to subscribe to the 
>> folders under the EXPUNGED namespace, nothing happens.
>>     
>
> What kind of a setup do you have? What happens if you manually subscribe
> to them:
>
> telnet localhost 143
> 1 login user pass
> 2 list "" *
> 3 subscribe expunged/something
> 4 lsub "" *
>
> It should be possible to subscribe to the mailboxes and undelete by
> copying the messages.
>
>   
I edited the subscription file for the namespace and added ".Trash". 
When I try to open it in Thunderbird I get this error:

The current command did not succeed.  The mail server responded: Mailbox
doesn't exist:
.EPUNGED.Trash

I copied the config exactly as its written on:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Lazyexpunge
<http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Lazyexpunge>


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