How to Restore emails

[Mark Foley]

Thanks for the reply Heiko

> About the 'cur' I'd not be too sure.

Well, I'm just restoring to .Deleted Items, so it shouldn't be a problem. The tar restore
should preserve names, permission, etc. I'll backup the current Maildir, the try the restore
and see what happens. I'll report back.

--Mark

-----Original Message-----
> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 23:36:52 +0100
> From: Heiko Schlittermann <hs at schlittermann.de>
> To: dovecot at dovecot.org
> Subject: Re: How to Restore emails
>
> Hi,
>
> Mark Foley <mfoley at ohprs.org> (Do 12 Nov 2015 23:31:39 CET):
> > According to a message to this list from Oli Schacher, 
> > http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2011-June/059493.html, all I need to do is copy the deleted
> > emails to their original folder and dovecot will take care of 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. 
>
> About the 'cur' I'd not be too sure. If you *mv* the files there from a
> directory on the same filesystem, you should be fine, but if copy the
> files, I'd be careful. Probably you want to mimic the maildir behaviour:
>
>     copy the files to tmp/
>     mv the files to cur/     (not sure, if new/ would be fine to,
>                               because new/ is the natural place after
>                               tmp/. I'm not sure, what this does to the
>                               message state the client sees.)
>  
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>     Heiko Schlittermann
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