[Dovecot] backup & restore mailbox files manually

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Tue, 26 Jan 2010, CoolAtt NNA wrote:

> When I delete the mail file from /Maildir/cur and restore it from the backup , I cannot see the body of the email when I
> view it (only the subject appears)
>
> I restored only a single mail file using scp:
> scp root at backup-host:/backup/vmail/coolatt/Maildir/cur/1264489757.P14232Q0M667471.ecs,S=628:2,S  /home/vmail/coolatt/Maildir/cur/

first try to reindex or cache the locally cached information about the 
mails.

If this does not help, try to change the stem of filename (before colon).

I do not have a caching MUA and never (well, I did not often restored 
messages directly into the original mailbox) had a problem like that.

Regards,

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Steffen Kaiser
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