[Dovecot] Restoring individual messages from a backup into a Maildir setup?

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 15:36 -0500, Thomas Harold wrote:
> We have a user who deleted IMAP folders from his account, so I simply 
> tried to restore the folder ".FolderName" from our backup.  I checked 
> that file/folder ownership was the same as the original, but the Dovecot 
> IMAP server is throwing errors at the client.
> 
> I've tried copying the individual message files from the "cur" folders 
> in the backup directory, but Dovecot immediate goes into panic mode and 
> throws errors at the IMAP client when I do that.  Even if the file is 
> owned by the currect UID.  I've tried putting those files into "tmp" and 
> "new" as well, with no luck.
..
> Eh, I figured this out before I even posted.  Restoration is indeed that 
> simple.  The problem is that the files were not labeled with the proper 
> SELinux security context after being restored.  When the file was 
> restored, it was assigned a context of "root:object_r:file_t", which is 
> not a context that the Dovecot service has permissions to interact with.

What was it logging? I think it should have clearly said there about
permission errors.

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