Recovering deleted mailbox

[Sean McBride]

Well, I finally had time to try this (with a test account) and it did not work for me.

I restored the .mailboxname folder (and all its contents, and with permissions preserved) and even ran:

sudo doveadm force-resync -u testuser mailboxname

but I don't see the folder restored from my IMAP client (roundcube).

Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks,

Sean


On 27 Apr 2022, at 18:53, Ted Hatfield wrote:

> 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.
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>> I use Maildir format storage.  I have backups.
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>> 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
>>
>>