[Dovecot] Recipe for "admin-less restore"

[Laurent CARON]

On 26/08/2012 18:47, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> Is there a way for setting up dovecot in such a way that a user can
> "jump back in time" to an old mailbox "state" in order to retrieve his
> accidentially deleted mail?

Hi,

We use snapshots for this

namespace snaps-h-2 {
   prefix = INBOX.EmailBackup.h-2.
   hidden = no
   list = yes
   inbox = no
   location = 
maildir:/home/.snapshot/hourly.0/%u/Maildir:INDEX=/var/tmp/dovecot/indexes/hourly.0/%u:CONTROL=/var/tmp/dovecot/control/hourly.0/%u
   type = private
}