Re: Get correct subjects in summary but wrong article body after transitioning between servers

19 Feb 2023


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Steinar Bang sb@dod.no:
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Steinar Bang sb@dod.no:
I am transitioning between servers (both debian 11.6 with dovecot
2.3.13) and I'm seeing some strange behaviour after the transition: it
seems like dovecot is listing the correct subject for the test messages
I'm sending in what's shown in my MUA's summary.
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But the body of the message is an old message.
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The problem wasn't in dovecot.
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The problem was in my MUA (gnus).
No it wasn't.
The problem was that I forgot to remove a cronjob
0 5 * * * rsync -4 --archive --delete oldserver.mydomain.no:Maildir .
So that job faithfully restored the maildir on the new server every
night to the February 6 state on my old server.
8 days of email lost forever, and noone to blame but myself.
Oh well!