On 30 Apr 2012, at 10:59, [email protected] wrote:
> Good day!
>
> is there an easy way to restore e.g. deleted mails and/or mail directories?
> let me specify: I'm running dovecot 1.2.9 on a current ubuntu lts. It is set
> to Maildir and I backup the folder with the users maildata nightly via rsync.
>
> now, when someone deletes a mail that they still need, and I copy it back
> from the backup, it will not be visible to mail clients. When I change the
> mailfile by a letter or so, it shows. that's easy enough, if not exactly
> awesome ;-)
>
> But, if said person deletes a whole folder of mails, this way to make
> restored mails show up becomes rather unreasonable.
>
> surely there is a better way to do this? I'd be glad for any and all hints! =)
>
> best regards
> silvana
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Hi,
Not sure about the availability on version 1.2.9, but the following command
should do the trick:
doveadm force-resync -u <username> <mailboxname>
Regards,
Thierry
