How to retrieve unread status from backup ?

[Xavier Bestel]

Thanks a lot Bron, precisely the kind of thing I was looking for :)

Regards,
	Xav

Le mercredi 29 mars 2017 à 12:12 -0500, Bron Gondwana a écrit :
> Actually, if you restore from backup to another Cyrus instance and
> can log in it's very easy using search-extended:
> 
> telnet restoreserver 143
> . login username password
> . select INBOX
> . UID SEARCH RETURN () UNSEEN
> * ESEARCH (TAG ".") UID ALL
> 1015337,1015340:1015366,1015378:1015379,1015381,1015384
> . logout
> 
> telnet productionserver 143
> . login username password
> . select INBOX
> . uid store 1015337,1015340:1015366,1015378:1015379,1015381,1015384
> -flags \Seen
> . logout
> 
> And you're done :)  Repeat the search for any other mailbox.
> 
> Bron.
> 
> On Wed, 29 Mar 2017, at 10:34, James Cassell wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 29, 2017, at 04:18 AM, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I have done an unfortunate "mark all as read" on my mailbox, and
> > > I'm
> > > not one of those "mailbox zero" guys. So I have lost some
> > > valuable
> > > information. But I have some (old) backups.
> > > 
> > > So my question is: how do I retrieve the "read/unread" status
> > > from the
> > > (not so recent) backup, and how can I reapply it to my running
> > > server
> > > (which continues to receive mails regularly) ?
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > You could do it with some invocations of imapsync.  The quickest
> > way would also restore any messages you may have deleted since your
> > backup.  Do an imapsync run with your backup server as "host1" and
> > your live server as "host2".
> > 
> > How I'd do it would be to take several steps:
> > 1. Sync from your live server to a temporary server (or temp folder
> > on the same server).
> > 2. Apply a unique imap flag to all messages in the temporary server
> > 3. sync from your backup to the temporary server.  This will clear
> > the unique flag on sync'ed messages.
> > 4. delete from the temporary server all messages that still have
> > the unique flag.
> > 5. sync from the temporary server back to the live server.
> > 6. delete the temporary server
> > 
> > Hope that helps!
> > 
> > V/r,
> > James Cassell
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