[Dovecot] Older messages not showing up after reinstall

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Tue, 1 Oct 2013, dclist wrote:

> I reinstalled Ubuntu, keeping my maildir directories. Messages older than
> the date of reinstall are not being served by dovecot. The messages show up
> normally in my MUA if I load the maildir directory directly.

May I say that I doubt that Dovecot does not serve them, if you see newer 
messages in the same mailbox :-)

> I assume there is a file somewhere where dovecot is keeping a list of seen
> messages which I need to reset. The old messages appear to be in
> dovecot-uidlist. I tried moving dovecot.index* to no effect.

remove dovecot-uidlist, this causes a full sync with the MUA, because the 
validity changes.

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Steffen Kaiser
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