[Dovecot] 2.0.17: Index lost -> SAVEDON lost as well?

[Timo Sirainen]

On 9.1.2012, at 9.40, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:

> Today I encoundered these errors:
> 
> Jan  9 08:30:06 mail dovecot: lmtp(31174, backup at backup.invalid): Error: Log synchronization error at seq=858,offset=44672 for
> /home/mailboxname/mdbox/storage/dovecot.map.index: Append with UID 282388, but next_uid = 282389

Any idea why this happened?

> After that, the SAVEDON date for all mails was reset to today:

Yeah. The "save date" is stored only in index. And index rebuild drops all those fields. I guess this could/should be fixed in index rebuild.

> Is there a way of restoring the SAVEDON info?

Not currently without extra code (and even then you could only restore it to e.g. its received date).