Recovering an email

[Christopher Paluch]

No my user is user an mail client that is setup as an IMAP connection, 
as are all users, so the emails are not being downloaded to their client.

Stefan Nitz wrote:

>Am Donnerstag, 7. Oktober 2004 22:32 schrieb Christopher Paluch:
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>>I have a user who deleted an email and then cleared their Trash folder,
>>but of course would like it back now.
>>
>>Every night I stop Cyrus, and perform a tar of /var/spool/imap.  What I
>>tried to do was I created a new user and then I restored the users files
>>into this new user's directory.  I did this while I had Cyrus stopped.
>>I then started Cyrus and tried to access this new user's mail folder.
>>All I found were several empty emails and a half dozen unread emails,
>>none of the ones I was looking for and no folders.  I also noticed some
>>of the files I had restored were now gone.  I then stopped Cyrus again,
>>performed the restore again, and then ran "reconstruct -r newusername".
>>It completed and I then started Cyrus back up.
>>Now when I access the new user, it shows nothing.
>>
>>Anyone have any suggestions on how I can accomplish this?  Thanks.
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>Your user is downloading (and removing) all mails into the client, so no one 
>is staying in spool or elsewhere. Your backup gets only the data after 
>downloading to the  client.
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>With best Regarts
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