[Dovecot] Recover a deleted message in MDBOX format ?

Frank Bonnet f.bonnet at esiee.fr
Tue Feb 15 11:55:01 EET 2011


OK I found doveadm after posting ...

sorry


On 02/15/2011 10:51 AM, Frank Bonnet wrote:
> Hello
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> Every night a backup of all mailboxes is performed to a NFS mounted 
> partition
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> All our mailboxes are now in MDBOX format.
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> I wonder how it would be possible to recover one  email accidentally
> deleted by a user ?
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> It was easy in MBOX format to extract and save it using mutt ( as root )
> from the backuped mbox then re-copy it to the user's mbox.
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> Of course I should access to the backup mailboxes space using thunderbird
> but doing this I need to know every users's passwords, that is 
> unacceptable.
> for security and privacy reasons.
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> Let users access to the backup space is not possible of course.
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> Is there a tool ?
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> Thanks
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