On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 21:06 -0700, Daminto Lie wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering if anyone might be able to help me with this. I am running > Postfix 2.7.0, Dovecot 1.2.9 and squirrelmail. Every week, I perform a > back-up > on both Postfix and Dovecot (maildir and conf folders). That's good because I > have all the emails backed up. And now what I would like to ask is whether or > not there are any easy way of restoring e-mails if some emails got deleted by > accident or for other reason. So far, I have tried to look up the answer on > the > Internet but got a bit of vague answer.
Other than finding and restoring the mail from backups, there's no simple way. Although you could configure Dovecot to do lazy-expunging: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Lazyexpunge
