[Dovecot] restore lost emails

[Oli Schacher]

On Mon, 6 Jun 2011 19:29:38 -0700 (PDT)
Daminto Lie <dlie76 at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> OK, but if I want to restore a particular mail from backups, what're
> the steps involved? What I mean is do I just copy and paste that mail
> file from backups to the user account maildir folder and what program
> should I run to synchronize it.
> 

exactly, just copy the mail from your backup back into the users
maildir (usually into 'cur'). Make sure the permissions of the restored
file are correct. No need to synchronize anything, dovecot automatically
detects the added message.