[Dovecot] restoring mails and directories

[Thierry de Montaudry]

On 30 Apr 2012, at 10:59, oni-neko at gmx.net wrote:

> Good day!
> 
> is there an easy way to restore e.g. deleted mails and/or mail directories?
> let me specify: I'm running dovecot 1.2.9 on a current ubuntu lts. It is set to Maildir and I backup the folder with the users maildata nightly via rsync. 
> 
> now, when someone deletes a mail that they still need, and I copy it back from the backup, it will not be visible to mail clients. When I change the mailfile by a letter or so, it shows. that's easy enough, if not exactly awesome ;-)
> 
> But, if said person deletes a whole folder of mails, this way to make restored mails show up becomes rather unreasonable. 
> 
> surely there is a better way to do this? I'd be glad for any and all hints! =)
> 
> best regards
> silvana
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Hi,

Not sure about the availability on version 1.2.9, but the following command should do the trick: 
doveadm force-resync -u <username> <mailboxname>

Regards,

	Thierry