Deleted dovecot.index.*

Aki Tuomi aki.tuomi at open-xchange.com
Mon Jun 17 21:03:56 EEST 2019


> On 17 June 2019 20:55 Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, 17 Jun 2019 at 20:45, Aki Tuomi via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org> wrote:
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> >  > On 17 June 2019 18:59 Odhiambo Washington via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org> wrote:
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> >  > I'm using mdbox.
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> >  > What's the consequence of deleting dovecot.index.* from all folders?
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> >  > All mail gets lost or I can rebuild the indexes and get the mails?
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> >  You will lose flags, such as \Seen. But mails should come out intact.
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> >  Aki
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> Thank you for this fast (and comforting) response.
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> All the previous mails disappeared after I deleted the files. What do I need to do to get them back??
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> Best regards,
> Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
> Nairobi,KE
> +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223
> "Oh, the cruft.",grep ^[^#] :-)

doveadm force-resync -u victim "*"

Aki


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