[Dovecot] Restoring a deleted/moved imap folder
Hi, one user of my imap server just deleted a whole folder, blame thunderbird
I have the server disk and running Stellar Info for deleted files recovery.
My cuestion is about how dovecot deleted an imap Maildir folder? The imap client is configured to move the deleted mails to the Trash folder, so I think dovecot would delete every Maildir email after successfully moved it.
In the case a folder is deleted, is something special dovecot does to the email? Or it just run the unlink() function?
In the case of compacting a folder, I think thats just a client side action.
Many thanks Oliver
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Oliver Schulze L. | http://tinymailto.com/oliver
Asuncion - Paraguay | http://www.solojuegos.mobi
On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 18:02 -0400, Oliver Schulze L. wrote:
Hi, one user of my imap server just deleted a whole folder, blame thunderbird
I have the server disk and running Stellar Info for deleted files recovery.
My cuestion is about how dovecot deleted an imap Maildir folder? The imap client is configured to move the deleted mails to the Trash folder, so I think dovecot would delete every Maildir email after successfully moved it.
When you delete a folder with Thunderbird it usually renames it under Trash (e.g. box -> Trash.box), so you should still be able to rescue it. If Trash was already compacted, then Thunderbird issued a DELETE command which causes Dovecot to unlink() and rmdir() everything.
Hi Timo, many thanks, I could restore all emails.
Regards, Oliver
Timo Sirainen wrote:
When you delete a folder with Thunderbird it usually renames it under Trash (e.g. box -> Trash.box), so you should still be able to rescue it. If Trash was already compacted, then Thunderbird issued a DELETE command which causes Dovecot to unlink() and rmdir() everything.
-- Oliver Schulze L. Asuncion - Paraguay http://tinymailto.com/oliver
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Charles Marcus
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Oliver Schulze L.
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Timo Sirainen