Re: [Dovecot] restore lost emails

On Mon, 6 Jun 2011 19:29:38 -0700 (PDT) Daminto Lie dlie76@yahoo.com.au wrote:

OK, but if I want to restore a particular mail from backups, what're the steps involved? What I mean is do I just copy and paste that mail file from backups to the user account maildir folder and what program should I run to synchronize 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.