Recovering an email

[Stefan Nitz]

Am Donnerstag, 7. Oktober 2004 22:32 schrieb Christopher Paluch:
> 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.

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.

With best Regarts

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