> On 29/04/2024 12:02 EEST Nils via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote: > > > On 4/27/24 16:30, Nils via dovecot wrote: > > I have a file backup and since that backup, new emails have been > > received. Also, not all of the emails were deleted - many folders > > weren't affected. Additionally I was able to restore a few of the > > deleted emails with ext4magic. > > > > So now I have three sources: > > > > 1. MAIN (new dovecot) contains the emails in the folders that weren't > > deleted and the emails received after the incident. > > 2. BACKUP (of mail directory) contains all emails from last backup date > > (including those still in the folders that weren't deleted). > > 3. RECOVER (directory) contains deleted email files that were recovered. > > > > How can I join these sources into MAIN, > > > > * without deleting any emails from MAIN (for example those that have > > been received today) and > > * with only reading and not writing into BACKUP and RECOVER? > > > > Is there any more or less convenient way to achieve that? > > If not, can I just dump all the files together and make dovecot > > recreate the indexes? > > _______________________________________________ > > dovecot mailing list -- dovecot@dovecot.org > > To unsubscribe send an email to dovecot-le...@dovecot.org > > Will doveadm-import automatically detect if a message already exists or > could I end up with duplicates? Or is it unnecessary to worry about that > because of the unique filename each message has?
doveadm import will happily import same emails over & over again. It has no such check. You should use doveadm sync -1 instead. (-1 = one way) Aki _______________________________________________ dovecot mailing list -- dovecot@dovecot.org To unsubscribe send an email to dovecot-le...@dovecot.org
