[Dovecot] Restoring individual messages from a backup into a Maildir setup?
Timo Sirainen
tss at iki.fi
Thu Jan 8 22:45:46 EET 2009
On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 15:36 -0500, Thomas Harold wrote:
> We have a user who deleted IMAP folders from his account, so I simply
> tried to restore the folder ".FolderName" from our backup. I checked
> that file/folder ownership was the same as the original, but the Dovecot
> IMAP server is throwing errors at the client.
>
> I've tried copying the individual message files from the "cur" folders
> in the backup directory, but Dovecot immediate goes into panic mode and
> throws errors at the IMAP client when I do that. Even if the file is
> owned by the currect UID. I've tried putting those files into "tmp" and
> "new" as well, with no luck.
..
> Eh, I figured this out before I even posted. Restoration is indeed that
> simple. The problem is that the files were not labeled with the proper
> SELinux security context after being restored. When the file was
> restored, it was assigned a context of "root:object_r:file_t", which is
> not a context that the Dovecot service has permissions to interact with.
What was it logging? I think it should have clearly said there about
permission errors.
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