Deleted dovecot.index.*

[Odhiambo Washington]

On Mon, 17 Jun 2019 at 21:03, Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi at open-xchange.com> wrote:

>
> > On 17 June 2019 20:55 Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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??
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
> > Nairobi,KE
> > +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223
> > "Oh, the cruft.",grep ^[^#] :-)
>
> doveadm force-resync -u victim "*"
>
> Aki
>


Thank you very very much.

Now off to read again about dbox storage.


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