cyrus: delete previously deleted messages(after backup recovery)

[Patrick Boutilier]

On 04/22/2014 09:19 AM, Y B wrote:
> Hello,
>
> after a disk crash, I had to recover all the emails from a daily backup.
> Unfortunately, I noticed that this backup was made with the rsync
> command but WITHOUT the --delete options.
> That means that the mail backup was much larger than the original one
> since no message was ever deleted on the backup.
> Now I would like to clean the mailboxes and remove all those emails that
> were previously deleted but I cannot find how.
> Is there any easy way to do this?
> (I use cyrus+postfix on debian 6.0.4)
>
> Thank you for your help.

Did you lose your metadata as well? Usually in /var/imap ?





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