[Dovecot] [SOLVED]Re: restored mails

[Wojciech Giel]

thanks for advice. found a problem collegue synchonized old version of 
dovecot.conf so:

maildir:~/Maildir:INDEX=~/dovecot-control/indexes:CONTROL=~/dovecot-control:LAYOUT=fs
vs
maildir:~/Maildir:INBOX=~/Maildir/INBOX:INDEX=~/dovecot-control/indexes:CONTROL=~/dovecot-control:LAYOUT=fs

Dovecot was looking in ~Maildir/cur instead of ~/Maildir/INBOX/cur. 
strange that other users didn't complain.
anyway it is working so back in business.
thanks for help
Wojciech
On 15/01/14 14:29, Steffen wrote:
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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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