<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>thanks for the answer.<br></div>I certainly still have the metadata since I have not lost any file, I have just too many files (all the previously deleted emails, recovered from my rsync backup)<br>
</div>I am not exactly sure where the metadata are situated, /var/imap does not exist. In my case, all email files are situated at /data/mail/imap/spool/*/user/username (the star being any letter of the alphabet).<br>For a given username, I have for example the following files:<br>
<br>-rw------- 1 cyrus mail 21183 Apr 23 11:01 4846.<br>-rw------- 1 cyrus mail 26585 Apr 23 10:49 4845.<br>-rw------- 1 cyrus mail 15720 Apr 23 10:39 4844.<br>-rw------- 1 cyrus mail 4496548 Apr 23 13:36 cyrus.cache<br>
-rw------- 1 cyrus mail 251 Mar 10 16:52 cyrus.header<br>-rw------- 1 cyrus mail 151816 Apr 23 13:36 cyrus.index<br>-rw------- 1 cyrus mail 10087920 Jan 22 02:28 cyrus.squat<br>drwx------ 2 cyrus mail 69632 Apr 23 13:11 Sent<br>
drwx------ 2 cyrus mail 4096 Apr 23 09:38 Drafts<br>drwx------ 4 cyrus mail 69632 Apr 22 20:45 Trash<br>drwx------ 2 cyrus mail 4096 Apr 22 20:30 spam<br><br><br></div><div>Are the metadata in the cyrus.* files?<br>
<br>If yes, is there an easy way to delete the old emails using these metadata?<br><br></div><div>Thank you.<br><br>Yannick<br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-04-22 15:06 GMT+02:00 Patrick Boutilier <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:boutilpj@ednet.ns.ca" target="_blank">boutilpj@ednet.ns.ca</a>></span>:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On 04/22/2014 09:19 AM, Y B wrote:<br>
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Hello,<br>
<br>
after a disk crash, I had to recover all the emails from a daily backup.<br>
Unfortunately, I noticed that this backup was made with the rsync<br>
command but WITHOUT the --delete options.<br>
That means that the mail backup was much larger than the original one<br>
since no message was ever deleted on the backup.<br>
Now I would like to clean the mailboxes and remove all those emails that<br>
were previously deleted but I cannot find how.<br>
Is there any easy way to do this?<br>
(I use cyrus+postfix on debian 6.0.4)<br>
<br>
Thank you for your help.<br>
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Did you lose your metadata as well? Usually in /var/imap ?<br>
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