[Dovecot] restored mails

[Steffen]

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Wojciech Giel wrote:
> Hello, I am running dovecot 2.1 on debian wheezy . We are using 
> maildir format.  one of our uses deleted content of INBOX folder 
> during xmass. he wants these messages back. I had these mail on 
> tape. I have restored them to his inbox/cur directory but dovecot 
> is not indexing them. Email client shows empty inbox as well.
> tried manually run:
> 
> doveadm index -u john -q INBOX no change. deleting indexes didn't 
> help.
> 
> How to restore these email?

see Oli's advice.
Does the user get new mail?
Maybe you need to touch the "cur" directory to indicate to Dovecot
that an external program changed its content.
You could try to create yet another mailbox and move the files there,
better: prepare everything outside the Maildir dir, then move the
top-directory of the new mailbox in place.

- -- 
Steffen
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