feature request: maintain folder structure with expunged email
Marc
Marc at f1-outsourcing.eu
Wed Mar 17 14:39:57 EET 2021
Currently when I am expunging messages, the expunged (to be purged messages) are counted / listed at INBOX.
Say for instance that a user would accidentally delete the mailbox 2014. The whole folder structure below it would be lost. If someone creates a folder structure, this folder structure has important added value.
I have my doubts on this design discarding of mailboxes like this. I think the use of mailboxes/folder structures is not valued enough. If you have a lot of email and put these emails in folders, the folder structure is part of the important information. Currently this 'important information' is lost with expunging.
I can understand that it maybe quite an effort to implement preserving this information. But using the doveadm import to restore a lot of emails, is really not an option.
I assume that also restoring email from a specific folder does not work. Say I delete foldera, folderb and folderc. How can I get back folderb.
[@]# mailbox-ls.sh testtest size
listing mailboxes of rittest:
Archive msgs=0 vsize=0B
Archive/2011 msgs=0 vsize=0B
Archive/2012 msgs=0 vsize=0B
Archive/2013 msgs=8 vsize=7.4KiB
Archive/2014 msgs=0 vsize=0B
Archive/2015 msgs=0 vsize=0B
Archive/2016 msgs=0 vsize=0B
Archive/2017 msgs=1214 vsize=103MiB
Archive/2018 msgs=70 vsize=5.9MiB
Archive/2019 msgs=221 vsize=18MiB
Archive/Archive msgs=1 vsize=2.4KiB
Archive/INBOX msgs=0 vsize=0B
Drafts msgs=9 vsize=16MiB delmsgs=0 delvsize=0B
INBOX msgs=51 vsize=107MiB delmsgs=3 delvsize=18MiB
INBOX/test2 msgs=1 vsize=5.8MiB delmsgs=0 delvsize=0B
Junk msgs=2 vsize=2.0KiB delmsgs=0 delvsize=0B
RESTORED msgs=0 vsize=0B delmsgs=0 delvsize=0B
RESTORED/INBOX msgs=3 vsize=18MiB delmsgs=0 delvsize=0B
Sent msgs=17 vsize=7.3KiB delmsgs=0 delvsize=0B
test1 msgs=3 vsize=12MiB delmsgs=0 delvsize=0B
test3 msgs=0 vsize=0B delmsgs=0 delvsize=0B
Trash msgs=0 vsize=0B delmsgs=0 delvsize=0B
Feature request: maintain folder/mailbox structure with expunging.
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