[Dovecot] Restoring a deleted/moved imap folder

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 18:02 -0400, Oliver Schulze L. wrote:
> Hi,
> one user of my imap server just deleted a whole folder, blame thunderbird
> 
> I have the server disk and running Stellar Info for deleted files recovery.
> 
> My cuestion is about how dovecot deleted an imap Maildir folder?
> The imap client is configured to move the deleted mails to the Trash
> folder, so I think dovecot would delete every Maildir email after 
> successfully
> moved it.

When you delete a folder with Thunderbird it usually renames it under
Trash (e.g. box -> Trash.box), so you should still be able to rescue it.
If Trash was already compacted, then Thunderbird issued a DELETE command
which causes Dovecot to unlink() and rmdir() everything.

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