Hello, I am running dovecot 2.1 on debian wheezy . We are using maildir format. one of our uses deleted content of INBOX folder during xmass. he wants these messages back. I had these mail on tape. I have restored them to his inbox/cur directory but dovecot is not indexing them. Email client shows empty inbox as well. tried manually run:

doveadm index -u john -q INBOX no change. deleting indexes didn't help.

How to restore these email? thanks Woj

my config: # 2.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 x86_64 Debian 7.3 auth_debug = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login cram-md5 auth_verbose = yes listen = * log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " login_greeting = IMAP Server is ready. mail_debug = yes mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:INDEX=~/dovecot-control/indexes:CONTROL=~/dovecot-control:LAYOUT=fs mail_plugins = " quota trash" managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave passdb { driver = pam } passdb { args = scheme=cram-md5 /etc/dovecot/passwd driver = passwd-file } plugin { antispam_backend = pipe antispam_debug_target = syslog antispam_mail_sendmail = /usr/bin/sa-learn-pipe.sh antispam_pipe_program_notspam_arg = --ham antispam_pipe_program_spam_arg = --spam antispam_pipe_tmpdir = /tmp antispam_spam = Junk;Spam antispam_trash_pattern = Trash;Deleted * antispam_verbose_debug = 0 autocreate = INBOX autocreate2 = Sent autocreate3 = Trash autocreate4 = Drafts autocreate5 = Junk autosubscribe = INBOX autosubscribe2 = Sent autosubscribe3 = Trash autosubscribe4 = Drafts autosubscribe5 = Junk quota = maildir:User quota quota_warning = storage=95%% quota-warning 95 %u quota_warning2 = storage=80%% quota-warning 80 %u quota_warning3 = -storage=100%% quota-warning below %u sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_default = /var/spool/dovecot/default.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve sieve_global_dir = /var/spool/dovecot/ trash = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-trash.conf.ext } protocols = imap sieve service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-master { mode = 0666 } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 2000 } } service quota-warning { executable = script /usr/bin/dovecot-quota-warning.sh user = postfix } ssl_ca = </etc/postfix/ssl/cacert.pem ssl_cert = </etc/postfix/ssl/servercrt.pem ssl_cipher_list = ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2:!EXP-ADH-DES-CBC-SHA:!EXP-EDH-RSA-DES-CBC-SHA:!EXP-DES-CBC-SHA:!EXP-RC2-CBC-MD5:!EXP-RC4-MD5:!EXP-ADH-RC4-MD5:!ADH-DES-CBC3-SHA:!ADH-RC4-MD5:!ADH-DES-CBC3-SHA:!ADH-AES128-SHA:!ADH-AES256-SHA:!ADH-RC4-MD5:!RC4 ssl_key = </etc/postfix/ssl/serverkey.pem userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/passwd driver = passwd-file } userdb { driver = passwd } protocol lda { deliver_log_format = msgid=%m: %$ info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log log_path = /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log mail_plugins = " quota trash autocreate sieve" postmaster_address = postmaster quota_full_tempfail = yes rejection_reason = Your message to <%t> was automatically rejected:%n%r } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = tb-extra-mailbox-sep delay-newmail tb-lsub-flags mail_max_userip_connections = 10 mail_plugins = " quota trash imap_quota autocreate antispam" }

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