Restoring mailboxes from backup duplicates messages in POP clients
Hello
I had a disk problem and had to reformat it. All mailboxes were backed up using rsync. After I restored the mailboxes, the POP clients (Thunderbird) that were configured to leave the messages on the mailserver for, let's say, 30 days, didn't understand that some messages were already transfered and the users got duplicated messages in their Inbox. How can we avoid this?
--
Thanks
Luís F. Gomes IT Manager (55)(21) 3527-1220 Departamento de Engenharia Elétrica PUC-Rio R. Marques de S. Vicente 225/401L 22451-900 - Rio de Janeiro/RJ
Hello
I had a disk problem and had to reformat it. All mailboxes were backed up using rsync. After I restored the mailboxes, the POP clients (Thunderbird) that were configured to leave the messages on the mailserver for, let's say, 30 days, didn't understand that some messages were already transfered and the users got duplicated messages in their Inbox. How can we avoid this?
-- Thanks Luís Fernando V. Gomes IT Manager (55)(21) 3527-1220 Departamento de Engenharia Elétrica PUC-Rio R. Marques de S. Vicente 225/401L 22451-900 - Rio de Janeiro/RJ - BR
On Wed Apr 10 2019 09:13:41 GMT-0400 (Eastern Standard Time), Luis F. V. Gomes via dovecot dovecot@dovecot.org wrote:
I had a disk problem and had to reformat it. All mailboxes were backed up using rsync. After I restored the mailboxes, the POP clients (Thunderbird) that were configured to leave the messages on the mailserver for, let's say, 30 days, didn't understand that some messages were already transfered and the users got duplicated messages in their Inbox. How can we avoid this?
Don't use rsync, use the built in dovecot backup capability?
On 10 Apr 2019, at 08:59, Tanstaafl via dovecot dovecot@dovecot.org wrote:
On Wed Apr 10 2019 09:13:41 GMT-0400 (Eastern Standard Time), Luis F. V. Gomes via dovecot dovecot@dovecot.org wrote:
I had a disk problem and had to reformat it. All mailboxes were backed up using rsync. After I restored the mailboxes, the POP clients (Thunderbird) that were configured to leave the messages on the mailserver for, let's say, 30 days, didn't understand that some messages were already transfered and the users got duplicated messages in their Inbox. How can we avoid this?
Don't use rsync, use the built in dovecot backup capability?
Also, don't use POP3?
-- Ahahahahaha! Ahahahaha! Aahahaha! BEWARE!!!!! Yrs sincerely The Opera Ghost
On Wed Apr 10 2019 11:14:29 GMT-0400 (Eastern Standard Time), @lbutlr via dovecot dovecot@dovecot.org wrote:
On 10 Apr 2019, at 08:59, Tanstaafl via dovecot dovecot@dovecot.org wrote:
On Wed Apr 10 2019 09:13:41 GMT-0400 (Eastern Standard Time), Luis F. V. Gomes via dovecot dovecot@dovecot.org wrote:
I had a disk problem and had to reformat it. All mailboxes were backed up using rsync. After I restored the mailboxes, the POP clients (Thunderbird) that were configured to leave the messages on the mailserver for, let's say, 30 days, didn't understand that some messages were already transfered and the users got duplicated messages in their Inbox. How can we avoid this?
Don't use rsync, use the built in dovecot backup capability?
Also, don't use POP3?
Well, I can at least understand the argument for someone wanting to use POP3, but that is beside the point... rsync won't retain the message UUIDs, while Dovecots backup will, thereby preventing POP3 users redownloading the emails.
participants (3)
-
＠lbutlr
-
Luis F. V. Gomes
-
Tanstaafl