How can I restore the "\Seen" state from backup?

[Patrick T. Tsang]

Hello,

I have seen there is no solution of re-construction.
The only way is to do imapsync.

As long as I know, cyrus imapd comes with no solution of keeping user mail 
status.
I tested to copy all /var/lib/imap files to the target server and do mail 
reconstruct, it worked but it is not practical since I have to shut down the 
cyrus server.

Patrick




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ciprian Vizitiu" <cvizitiu at gbif.org>
To: <info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 4:54 AM
Subject: How can I restore the "\Seen" state from backup?


>
> Hi everybody,
>
> SomeUser deletes SomeFolder by mistake; so I bring
> /var/spool/imap/s/user/someuser/SomeFolder content back from tape; I stop
> cyrus, I export mailbox.db, I edit it, add back user.someuser.SomeFolder
> default lrswpcida, import mailbox.txt, reconstruct -f -r someuser start
> cyrus. I can again subsribe to that folder BUT all mails are "brand new";
> for some 8000 mails this might not be an option. What am I missing from 
> the
> restoration process? Obviously I can not simply restore .../someuser.seen
> from tape as in between the deletion of the folder and my restoration from
> tape the user has "\Seen" other mails; someuser.seen is skiplist.
>
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