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From "Peter Humphrey" <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk>
To gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Date 02.06.2025 11:52:34 Subject [gentoo-user] Recovering mail
Greetings, My user's .maildir has overfilled and so I've lost some emails. However, I have a cron job running every five minutes to rsync .maildir to /mnt/mailbu. The question is: can I just copy mailbu over .maildir?
There might be some duplicates depending on e.g. the message state, which is encoded in the filename. Try rsync -avn /mnt/malibu/ ~/.maildir for a dry-run that should tell you what would be copied. If the results look reasonable stop dovecot and kmail, run again without the -n, start dovecot. At least that's what I would do to fix my maildir. Good luck, s.
The mail chain is fetchmail (POP3) > postfix > dovecot > kmail (IMAP4). -- Regards, Peter.
