Deleted dovecot.index.*

[Odhiambo Washington]

On Mon, 17 Jun 2019 at 20:45, Aki Tuomi via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org>
wrote:

>
> > On 17 June 2019 18:59 Odhiambo Washington via dovecot <
> dovecot at dovecot.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I'm using mdbox.
> >
> > What's the consequence of deleting dovecot.index.* from all folders?
> >
> > All mail gets lost or I can rebuild the indexes and get the mails?
> >
> >
>
> You will lose flags, such as \Seen. But mails should come out intact.
>
> Aki
>

Thank you for this fast (and comforting) response.

All the previous mails disappeared after I deleted the files. What do I
need to do to get them back??


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Best regards,
Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
Nairobi,KE
+254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223
"Oh, the cruft.", grep ^[^#] :-)
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