> On 22 Oct 2016, at 22:09, Gerben Wierda <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On 22 Oct 2016, at 19:04, Aki Tuomi <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >>> 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. > > Thanks. Losing 300 flags and unread on thousands of emails was not a > preferred scenario. > > I was able to repair by > - turning dovecote (and other mail services) off > - find all message files that were changed in a certain period > - check all their names against their file sizes (this found me the edited > ones) > - returning the ***UNCHECKED*** string to the Subject lines making the file > sizes equal to the size as reported in the name of the file > > Which leaves me with something I would really like: change the subject line > of 5-10 messages in dovecot, without destroying everything. > > I was thinking about the following scenario: > - create a separate mailbox REPAIR within user X’s mail store (the INBOX, > btw, is named ‘cur’) > - move all to be changed messages there using the mail client > - kill the mail client > - stop dovecot > - edit the messages and change the names of the files so the S= W= parts are > in line with the new content. (I understand S, but what is W?) > - run “devoid index -u user REPAIR” > - start dovecot > - start email client (potentially, reload the entire mail store for that user) > > Would that work?
There was an easier solution. In my mail program I created a local mailbox, copied the messages there, edited them on disk, rebuilt the local mailbox and then moved them back to IMAP. G
