cyrus: delete previously deleted messages(after backup recovery)

[Y B]

thanks for the answer.
I certainly still have the metadata since I have not lost any file, I have
just too many files (all the previously deleted emails, recovered from my
rsync backup)
I am not exactly sure where the metadata are situated, /var/imap does not
exist. In my case, all email files are situated at
/data/mail/imap/spool/*/user/username (the star being any letter of the
alphabet).
For a given username, I have for example the following files:

-rw-------  1 cyrus mail    21183 Apr 23 11:01 4846.
-rw-------  1 cyrus mail    26585 Apr 23 10:49 4845.
-rw-------  1 cyrus mail    15720 Apr 23 10:39 4844.
-rw------- 1 cyrus mail  4496548 Apr 23 13:36 cyrus.cache
-rw------- 1 cyrus mail      251 Mar 10 16:52 cyrus.header
-rw------- 1 cyrus mail   151816 Apr 23 13:36 cyrus.index
-rw------- 1 cyrus mail 10087920 Jan 22 02:28 cyrus.squat
drwx------  2 cyrus mail    69632 Apr 23 13:11 Sent
drwx------  2 cyrus mail     4096 Apr 23 09:38 Drafts
drwx------  4 cyrus mail    69632 Apr 22 20:45 Trash
drwx------  2 cyrus mail     4096 Apr 22 20:30 spam


Are the metadata in the cyrus.* files?

If yes, is there an easy way to delete the old emails using these metadata?

Thank you.

Yannick



2014-04-22 15:06 GMT+02:00 Patrick Boutilier <boutilpj at ednet.ns.ca>:

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