-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 LuKreme wrote: > > On 02 Oct 2013, at 11:51 , Charles Marcus > <cmar...@media-brokers.com> wrote: > >> On 2013-10-01 7:42 PM, LuKreme <krem...@kreme.com> wrote: >>> I have a user with a lot of email (A LOT of email, probably >>> over 500,000 emails). Recently, several thousand messages of >>> his were lost, and I pulled them out of the backup archives >>> (zip files containing each days emails in an mbox) that are >>> created on his account and fed them into his procmail scripts >>> and they were all processed just fine and ended up in the right >>> directories. >>> >>> Except. >>> >>> The messages were from 6 months back, and the messages now show >>> up in his mail client with the time stamp of the date they were >>> restored, and not the date that shows up in the headers of the >>> message. >>> >>> Anything I can do? >> >> Fix your restore script/methodology, then restore them again? > > That would just move the grep/convert/rename into the restore > process. > > Maildir saves the file with the epoch timestamp of the time the > file is saved.
you re-submit the message into the message transfer process, hence the message is new and not the original "backup"ed message. If you would backup and restore the file from/to the Maildir without procmail a.s.o. you would have the original message. - -- Steffen -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEVAwUBUk80E13r2wJMiz2NAQKEwQf+Lrps5g2y36ONPmkV4A44DdFB/1q5lF8/ tJReF/YfWyqM6SlFW07HsfJet1Sl8eEAd9EMVmjbbMk6kVZsSGBRTAYn03myHZbd m4dHznmw+X4dhGx5k/NInSlLLBV8RKCjR+SKXnKbHxw7EA1SFNs0r/6U06wR5MwV 20KKSyHpS2s3mNsCQzG0U56AEUj1oIwXJfk6LJBPPMOs1kbGFk7FD21BSrdf3xHc JZKBbUMZ2N57csa8i88rUSd/wtt5hw9QtDS9H7fyLiqPy3bfz6/MSEJv/vBVw7Gz PA0oUmOoAMh27IJg1KZNaN0FCyT8K/zafy4B2JZWOHc6f+jQYjmSEQ== =i8Gp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
