Thanks for the reply Heiko
About the 'cur' I'd not be too sure.
Well, I'm just restoring to .Deleted Items, so it shouldn't be a problem. The tar restore should preserve names, permission, etc. I'll backup the current Maildir, the try the restore and see what happens. I'll report back.
--Mark
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Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 23:36:52 +0100 From: Heiko Schlittermann hs@schlittermann.de To: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: Re: How to Restore emails
Hi,
Mark Foley mfoley@ohprs.org (Do 12 Nov 2015 23:31:39 CET):
According to a message to this list from Oli Schacher, http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2011-June/059493.html, all I need to do is copy the deleted emails to their original folder and dovecot will take care of it:
???
exactly, just copy the mail from your backup back into the users maildir (usually into 'cur'). Make sure the permissions of the restored file are correct. No need to synchronize anything, dovecot automatically detects the added message.
About the 'cur' I'd not be too sure. If you *mv* the files there from a directory on the same filesystem, you should be fine, but if copy the files, I'd be careful. Probably you want to mimic the maildir behaviour:
copy the files to tmp/ mv the files to cur/ (not sure, if new/ would be fine to, because new/ is the natural place after tmp/. I'm not sure, what this does to the message state the client sees.) Best regards from Dresden/Germany Viele Grüße aus Dresden Heiko Schlittermann-- SCHLITTERMANN.de ---------------------------- internet & unix support - Heiko Schlittermann, Dipl.-Ing. (TU) - {fon,fax}: +49.351.802998{1,3} - gnupg encrypted messages are welcome --------------- key ID: F69376CE - ! key id 7CBF764A and 972EAC9F are revoked since 2015-01 ------------ -