> On October 22, 2016 at 7:51 PM Gerben Wierda <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello folks, > > I have an older dovecot 2.0 (which I will migrate to a 2.2 asap, but at this > point in time I need a fix). This is a dovecot 2.0 that came with Mac OS X > 10.8.5 Server 2.2.5. > > Today, my spam/virus filtering (clamav) on the Server broke down. As a > result, all my meesages got the ***UNCHECKED*** tag added to each subject. > That was clearly unacceptable. SO, for the tim ebeing I have set that tag to > undef so the tag is no longer added. But I also wanted to repair the messages > that already ended up in dovecot 2.0 > > So, I did something simple: stopped all mail services on the server, went > into the dovecot mail store and edited the messages. I first tried with one > small ccount and it seemed OK. But now my mail client is experiencing > problems with the messages (cannot display) and I think I've been to > simplistic. I have for instance notedthat th esizeof the message is part of > the filename. So, I can change these of course, but probably I need to change > more. > > Can someone enlighten me how I can repair the broken data store? > > Thanks, > > (Foolish) Gerben
I think your best bet is to delete dovecot.index* and run dovecot index -u username. Or revert all your changes. Depending what mail store you are using, this might lose any flags on your mails, such as \Read. Aki
