[Dovecot] stupid migration from maildir+ to dbox

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Jun 17 22:58:12 EEST 2009


On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 22:41 +0400, Vasiliy G Tolstov wrote:
> Hello.
> I'm install latest dovecot 1.2 from hg repo. I have many messages in
> maildir+ format. I migrate some folders to dbxo format using
> instructions from http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/dbox.
> But in two folders i'm delete index.cache and index.log files, this is
> my mistake.
> Is that possible to recover this files (regenerate) or use my messages
> from maildir with dbox?

Does that mailbox now show up empty? You didn't mention if you deleted
also dovecot.index file? If you delete dovecot.index* and dbox.index, it
should rebuild the entire dbox from the files it finds in the mailbox.

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