According to a message to this list from Oli Schacher, http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2011-June/059493.html, all I need to do is copy the deleted emails to their original folder and dovecot will take care of it:
On Tue Jun 7 08:43:54 EEST 2011 Oli Schacher wrote: >> OK, but if I want to restore a particular mail from backups, what're >> the steps involved? What I mean is do I just copy and paste that mail >> file from backups to the user account maildir folder and what program >> should I run to synchronize it. > > > exactly, just copy the mail from your backup back into the users > maildir (usually into 'cur'). Make sure the permissions of the restored > file are correct. No need to synchronize anything, dovecot automatically > detects the added message. Unless someone out there advises me against doing this, I'm going to try it. I've also seen `dovadm import` as a possible suggestion, though if a simple copy works I don't see why anyone would use `dovadm import`. --Mark -----Original Message----- From: Mark Foley <mfo...@ohprs.org> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 17:13:50 -0500 To: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: How to Restore emails I have a user who accidentially deleted a large number of emails prior to a certain date. He wants them back. I do have a tarfile backup of these messages. Is there a good way to restore them? Can I simply restore them to the appropriate Maildir directory and dovecot will just "figure it out"? Thanks, --Mark
