Delayed delete, restoring deleted mailboxes

[Joseph Brennan]

--On Tuesday, March 17, 2009 7:57 -0400 Adam Tauno Williams 
<awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 13:26 +0200, Leena Heino wrote:
>> What is the recommended process to restore deleted messages or mailboxes
>> when delayed delete is in use?
>
> Use the unexpunge command;  the man page isn't bad, and I have examples
> and some notes in the Cyrus chapter of WMOGAG
> <http://docs.opengroupware.org/Members/whitemice/wmogag/file_view>.


Unexpunge for messages.

For entire mailboxes, use rename.  You can find the name by doing a
"lm *string*" in cyradm.  It will start "DELETED." and end with an
extra string.

Joseph Brennan
Lead Email Systems Engineer
Columbia University Information Technology