On 04 Oct 2013, at 15:33 , Steffen <skdove...@smail.inf.fh-brs.de> wrote:
> -----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. The backup messages are not in a maildir, they are stored in daily gzip files. -- I SAW NOTHING UNUSUAL IN THE TEACHER'S LOUNGE Bart chalkboard Ep. 8F17
