On 13.12.2011, at 10.50, Joseba Torre wrote: > Terry's solution feels great: just a little modification of the mdbox, adding > a ¿text? file with the list of attachment files, that is modified every time > an attachment is added/deleted.
I'd rather not implement that. It makes dbox more fragile and less efficient. > With that, it seems quite easy to modify our mailbox recovery script to > something like: > - recover the mailbox as now > - recover every attachment file that file points to. > > Other option: a new doveadm option that could generate this list, and then > recover the mailbox, generate the list, recover the attachments. That would be possible. You could actually already do it with v2.1's "doveadm dump", which outputs dbox file's metadata.