Version controlled (git) Maildir generated by Dovecot

[Adam]

Or on a testing system I can just stop Dovecot, remove everything that doesn't start with a number and restart Dovecot and connect Thunderbird and see the results. Thank you.

> ---------- Původní e-mail ----------
> Od: Gerald Galster <list+dovecot at gcore.biz>
> Komu: dovecot at dovecot.org
> Datum: 7. 10. 2020 14:36:43
> Předmět: Re: Version controlled (git) Maildir generated by Dovecot
> 
> > Could you please tell me / do you know if those dovecot* files have to be also backed / archived?
> 
> IIRC the plain files from cur/ and new/ should suffice.
> 
> You can try it: create a new IMAP folder, then close your mail app.
> Copy some mail files from another cur/ to this imap folder's cur/ directory.
> Reopen your mail app and see if new mails are fetched.
> 
> Best regards
> Gerald