<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">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.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1) a couple of mailboxes have a lot (one has <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo; font-size: 11px;" class="">102462) emails in the tmp directory. The files do not have the standard Mairdir++ filename format. An example:</span></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> <a href="http://1581262582.M397740P72267.mini.mmpcrofton.com" class="">1581262582.M397740P72267.mini.mmpcrofton.com</a> (missing the stuff at the end, </span>,S=,W=:2,S)</div></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo; font-size: 11px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo; font-size: 11px;" class="">2) I see files in the cur directory that do not have the Maildir++ format. An example:</span></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> <a href="http://1601287326.V810Ie80087M240104.mmp-mail.mmpcrofton.com" class="">1601287326.V810Ie80087M240104.mmp-mail.mmpcrofton.com</a>:2,S. (do not have the </span>,S=,W= values and the second value, V810Ie80087M240104, is longer that the other file names)</div></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">How do I get the emails in (1) out of tmp?</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Do I need to convert the emails in (2)?</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">David </div></body></html>