Thanks for the reply Heiko > About the 'cur' I'd not be too sure.
Well, I'm just restoring to .Deleted Items, so it shouldn't be a problem. The tar restore should preserve names, permission, etc. I'll backup the current Maildir, the try the restore and see what happens. I'll report back. --Mark -----Original Message----- > Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 23:36:52 +0100 > From: Heiko Schlittermann <h...@schlittermann.de> > To: dovecot@dovecot.org > Subject: Re: How to Restore emails > > Hi, > > Mark Foley <mfo...@ohprs.org> (Do 12 Nov 2015 23:31:39 CET): > > According to a message to this list from Oli Schacher, > > http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2011-June/059493.html, all I need to do > > is copy the deleted > > emails to their original folder and dovecot will take care of it: > > > ??? > > > exactly, just copy the mail from your backup back into the users > > > maildir (usually into 'cur'). Make sure the permissions of the restored > > > file are correct. No need to synchronize anything, dovecot automatically > > > detects the added message. > > About the 'cur' I'd not be too sure. If you *mv* the files there from a > directory on the same filesystem, you should be fine, but if copy the > files, I'd be careful. Probably you want to mimic the maildir behaviour: > > copy the files to tmp/ > mv the files to cur/ (not sure, if new/ would be fine to, > because new/ is the natural place after > tmp/. I'm not sure, what this does to the > message state the client sees.) > > Best regards from Dresden/Germany > Viele Grüße aus Dresden > Heiko Schlittermann > -- > SCHLITTERMANN.de ---------------------------- internet & unix support - > Heiko Schlittermann, Dipl.-Ing. (TU) - {fon,fax}: +49.351.802998{1,3} - > gnupg encrypted messages are welcome --------------- key ID: F69376CE - > ! key id 7CBF764A and 972EAC9F are revoked since 2015-01 ------------ -