Files in tmp directory

[David Morsberger]

The files in the tmp directory were not showing up in my mailbox. 

I resolved both using the following technique. Anyone can see the solution in the archives if they run into the same situation.

Create a temporary mailbox (.INBOX.tmp_email).

For each mailbox that had an issue, Items 1) and 2) below)
   Move in Linux (mv command) all suspect files from 1) and 2) below into the .INBOX.tmp_email/cur directory. 

   Use mail client to move the messages from tmp_email mailbox to the <original mailbox>. 

   Verify in Linux that the files are correctly formatted in the <original mailbox>/cur directory

Everything is running smoothly now.

David 

> On Nov 29, 2020, at 4:09 PM, Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi at open-xchange.com> wrote:
> 
> Not sure if this actually has any impact, do you get an error?
> 
> Aki
> 
>> On 29/11/2020 20:02 David Morsberger <david at mmpcrofton.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Ping - anyone know how I should clean up my “mess”? :) 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Nov 26, 2020, at 7:42 PM, David Morsberger <david at mmpcrofton.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I had to restore many thousands of dovecot emails from a crashed Mac Server to a new Ubuntu server. After completing I am noticing a few things that may be okay or may need to be fixed.
>>> 
>>> 1) a couple of mailboxes have a lot (one has 102462) emails in the tmp directory. The files do not have the standard Mairdir++ filename format. An example:
>>> 1581262582.M397740P72267.mini.mmpcrofton.com (http://1581262582.m397740p72267.mini.mmpcrofton.com/) (missing the stuff at the end,,S=,W=:2,S)
>>> 
>>> 2) I see files in the cur directory that do not have the Maildir++ format. An example:
>>> 1601287326.V810Ie80087M240104.mmp-mail.mmpcrofton.com (http://1601287326.v810ie80087m240104.mmp-mail.mmpcrofton.com/):2,S. (do not have the,S=,W= values and the second value, V810Ie80087M240104, is longer that the other file names)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> How do I get the emails in (1) out of tmp?
>>> 
>>> Do I need to convert the emails in (2)?
>>> 
>>> David
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