Recovering deleted mailbox

[Aki Tuomi]

> On 28/04/2022 09:56 Narcis Garcia <debianlists at actiu.net> wrote:
> 
>  
> __________
> I'm using this dedicated address because personal addresses aren't 
> masked enough at this mail public archive. Public archive administrator 
> should fix this against automated addresses collectors.
> El 28/4/22 a les 7:48, Aki Tuomi ha escrit:
> > 
> >> On 28/04/2022 08:33 Shawn Heisey <elyograg at elyograg.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>   
> >> On 4/27/2022 11:27 PM, Aki Tuomi wrote:
> >>> There is no reason to delete the dovecot files after recovery. You can run `doveadm force-resync` to ensure everything is synced. Removing the files just cause more problems than benefit usually.
> >>
> >> Thanks for that information!  Very helpful for future fiddling.
> >>
> >> Does that resync command also maybe force a full FTS reindex?  I'm using
> >> fts_solr.  The way that I currently manage a full reindex is with the
> >> following shell script:
> >>
> >> ---
> >> #!/bin/sh
> >> DOVECOT_SOLR_URL_BASE="http://localhost:8983/solr/dovecot"
> >> MAIL_ROOT=/var/vmail
> >>
> >> # DO NOT MODIFY BELOW
> >> # WITHOUT GOOD REASON
> >> #
> >> DEL_ALL_QUERY_XML="<delete><query>*:*</query></delete>"
> >> service dovecot stop
> >> curl \
> >>     "${DOVECOT_SOLR_URL_BASE}/update?commit=true&optimize=true" \
> >>     -H "Content-Type: text/xml" \
> >>     --data-binary "${DEL_ALL_QUERY_XML}"
> >> find ${MAIL_ROOT} -name "dovecot.*index*" -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f
> >> service dovecot start
> >> doveadm index -A -q '*'
> >> ---
> >>
> >> -s
> > 
> > # drop fts data
> > doveadm fts rescan -u user
> > # rebuild index
> > doveadm index -u user "*"
> > 
> > Aki
> 
> I took note of this:
> # Repair
> doveadm -v force-resync -u $User '*'
> # Drop fts data
> doveadm -v fts rescan -u $User
> # Rebuild index
> doveadm -v index -u $User '*'
> 
> But I'm not clear about $User it it's for my system "vmail" account that 
> run Dovecot services, or it refers to mail account.
> In first case, how to specify mail account or maildir tree to act to?
> 
> Thank you.

It refers to user's mail account, not system vmail account.

Aki