[Dovecot] restoring mails and directories
Good day!
is there an easy way to restore e.g. deleted mails and/or mail directories? let me specify: I'm running dovecot 1.2.9 on a current ubuntu lts. It is set to Maildir and I backup the folder with the users maildata nightly via rsync.
now, when someone deletes a mail that they still need, and I copy it back from the backup, it will not be visible to mail clients. When I change the mailfile by a letter or so, it shows. that's easy enough, if not exactly awesome ;-)
But, if said person deletes a whole folder of mails, this way to make restored mails show up becomes rather unreasonable.
surely there is a better way to do this? I'd be glad for any and all hints! =)
best regards silvana
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On 30 Apr 2012, at 10:59, oni-neko@gmx.net wrote:
Good day!
is there an easy way to restore e.g. deleted mails and/or mail directories? let me specify: I'm running dovecot 1.2.9 on a current ubuntu lts. It is set to Maildir and I backup the folder with the users maildata nightly via rsync.
now, when someone deletes a mail that they still need, and I copy it back from the backup, it will not be visible to mail clients. When I change the mailfile by a letter or so, it shows. that's easy enough, if not exactly awesome ;-)
But, if said person deletes a whole folder of mails, this way to make restored mails show up becomes rather unreasonable.
surely there is a better way to do this? I'd be glad for any and all hints! =)
best regards silvana
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Hi,
Not sure about the availability on version 1.2.9, but the following command should do the trick: doveadm force-resync -u <username> <mailboxname>
Regards,
ThierryOn Mon, 2012-04-30 at 10:59 +0200, oni-neko@gmx.net wrote:
Good day!
is there an easy way to restore e.g. deleted mails and/or mail directories? let me specify: I'm running dovecot 1.2.9 on a current ubuntu lts. It is set to Maildir and I backup the folder with the users maildata nightly via rsync.
now, when someone deletes a mail that they still need, and I copy it back from the backup, it will not be visible to mail clients. When I change the mailfile by a letter or so, it shows. that's easy enough, if not exactly awesome ;-)
Sounds like the message gets its old IMAP UID back, but since IMAP isn't designed for that, the clients don't realize it. By changing the filename the message gets a new UID.
Although typically Dovecot should notice that and log an error and fix the situation, except if you've disabled index files.
So..: Don't put the messages back to where you got them with the same names.
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oni-neko＠gmx.net
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Thierry de Montaudry
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Timo Sirainen