<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 17 Jun 2019 at 20:45, Aki Tuomi via dovecot <<a href="mailto:dovecot@dovecot.org">dovecot@dovecot.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
> On 17 June 2019 18:59 Odhiambo Washington via dovecot <<a href="mailto:dovecot@dovecot.org" target="_blank">dovecot@dovecot.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I'm using mdbox.<br>
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> What's the consequence of deleting dovecot.index.* from all folders?<br>
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> All mail gets lost or I can rebuild the indexes and get the mails?<br>
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You will lose flags, such as \Seen. But mails should come out intact.<br>
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Aki<br>
</blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for this fast (and comforting) response.</div><div><br></div>All the previous mails disappeared after I deleted the files. What do I need to do to get them back??<div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Best regards,<br>Odhiambo WASHINGTON,<br>Nairobi,KE<br>+254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223<br>"<span style="font-size:12.8px">Oh, the cruft.</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">", </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">grep ^[^#] :-)</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>