On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 18:02 -0400, Oliver Schulze L. wrote: > Hi, > one user of my imap server just deleted a whole folder, blame thunderbird > > I have the server disk and running Stellar Info for deleted files recovery. > > My cuestion is about how dovecot deleted an imap Maildir folder? > The imap client is configured to move the deleted mails to the Trash > folder, so I think dovecot would delete every Maildir email after > successfully > moved it.
When you delete a folder with Thunderbird it usually renames it under Trash (e.g. box -> Trash.box), so you should still be able to rescue it. If Trash was already compacted, then Thunderbird issued a DELETE command which causes Dovecot to unlink() and rmdir() everything.
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