Recovering deleted mailbox

[Ted Hatfield]

I've done so with no issues as long as permissions and ownership are 
accurate.

Ted Hatfield

On Wed, 27 Apr 2022, Sean McBride wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a user (coworker) that accidentally deleted a mailbox and all its sub-mailboxes.
>
> I use Maildir format storage.  I have backups.
>
> Is it enough to put the mailbox folder back where it was?  I'm talking 
> about the folder that contains 'cur', 'new', 'tmp', 'dovecot-uidlist', 
> etc.   Or would this desynchronize or otherwise confuse dovecot?  Or is 
> it preferable to use some doveadm command?  Or...?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sean
>
>