reprocessing mail

Hey guys,

I had some corruptions whereby dovecot would bomb out on mail files in my maildir.  I found that if piped the files to dovecot-lda the all email was clean &lost.   I even retrieved email I thought might have been lost for good.  I have some better ideas now, but I still processed a few thousand emails like that now & would like to do something like this:

• stop dovecot
• iterate over each file ** get date ** touch date (linux - to set the date/time) ** rename the file with the correct epoch ** update dovecot-uidlist with correct epoch
• start dovecot

Will that work?  Or is there something I've missed or should do?

• Marc