[Dovecot] restored mails

[Wojciech Giel]

Hello,
I am running dovecot 2.1 on debian wheezy . We are using maildir 
format.  one of our uses deleted content of INBOX folder during xmass. 
he wants these messages back.
  I had these mail on tape. I have restored them to his inbox/cur 
directory but dovecot is not indexing them. Email client shows empty 
inbox as well.
tried manually run:

doveadm index -u john -q INBOX
no change.
deleting indexes didn't help.

How to restore these email?
thanks
Woj

my config:
# 2.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 x86_64 Debian 7.3
auth_debug = yes
auth_mechanisms = plain login cram-md5
auth_verbose = yes
listen = *
log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log
log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S "
login_greeting = IMAP Server is ready.
mail_debug = yes
mail_location = 
maildir:~/Maildir:INDEX=~/dovecot-control/indexes:CONTROL=~/dovecot-control:LAYOUT=fs
mail_plugins = " quota trash"
managesieve_notify_capability = mailto
managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope 
encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric 
relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify 
environment mailbox date ihave
passdb {
   driver = pam
}
passdb {
   args = scheme=cram-md5 /etc/dovecot/passwd
   driver = passwd-file
}
plugin {
   antispam_backend = pipe
   antispam_debug_target = syslog
   antispam_mail_sendmail = /usr/bin/sa-learn-pipe.sh
   antispam_pipe_program_notspam_arg = --ham
   antispam_pipe_program_spam_arg = --spam
   antispam_pipe_tmpdir = /tmp
   antispam_spam = Junk;Spam
   antispam_trash_pattern = Trash;Deleted *
   antispam_verbose_debug = 0
   autocreate = INBOX
   autocreate2 = Sent
   autocreate3 = Trash
   autocreate4 = Drafts
   autocreate5 = Junk
   autosubscribe = INBOX
   autosubscribe2 = Sent
   autosubscribe3 = Trash
   autosubscribe4 = Drafts
   autosubscribe5 = Junk
   quota = maildir:User quota
   quota_warning = storage=95%% quota-warning 95 %u
   quota_warning2 = storage=80%% quota-warning 80 %u
   quota_warning3 = -storage=100%% quota-warning below %u
   sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve
   sieve_default = /var/spool/dovecot/default.sieve
   sieve_dir = ~/sieve
   sieve_global_dir = /var/spool/dovecot/
   trash = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-trash.conf.ext
}
protocols = imap sieve
service auth {
   unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
     group = postfix
     mode = 0666
     user = postfix
   }
   unix_listener auth-master {
     mode = 0666
   }
}
service managesieve-login {
   inet_listener sieve {
     port = 2000
   }
}
service quota-warning {
   executable = script /usr/bin/dovecot-quota-warning.sh
   user = postfix
}
ssl_ca = </etc/postfix/ssl/cacert.pem
ssl_cert = </etc/postfix/ssl/servercrt.pem
ssl_cipher_list = 
ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2:!EXP-ADH-DES-CBC-SHA:!EXP-EDH-RSA-DES-CBC-SHA:!EXP-DES-CBC-SHA:!EXP-RC2-CBC-MD5:!EXP-RC4-MD5:!EXP-ADH-RC4-MD5:!ADH-DES-CBC3-SHA:!ADH-RC4-MD5:!ADH-DES-CBC3-SHA:!ADH-AES128-SHA:!ADH-AES256-SHA:!ADH-RC4-MD5:!RC4
ssl_key = </etc/postfix/ssl/serverkey.pem
userdb {
   args = /etc/dovecot/passwd
   driver = passwd-file
}
userdb {
   driver = passwd
}
protocol lda {
   deliver_log_format = msgid=%m: %$
   info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log
   log_path = /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log
   mail_plugins = " quota trash autocreate sieve"
   postmaster_address = postmaster
   quota_full_tempfail = yes
   rejection_reason = Your message to <%t> was automatically rejected:%n%r
}
protocol imap {
   imap_client_workarounds = tb-extra-mailbox-sep delay-newmail 
tb-lsub-flags
   mail_max_userip_connections = 10
   mail_plugins = " quota trash imap_quota autocreate antispam"
}

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1389710739.M139355P6177.pine,S=38933,W=39648:2,Sd
1379340386.M670300P24951.pine,S=2282,W=2328:2,S 
1389710937.M15977P6316.pine,S=20426,W=20831:2,Sd
1379342173.M207466P25909.pine,S=2649,W=2700:2,S 
1389715067.M350398P8795.pine,S=18288,W=18549:2,Sd
1379343332.M808399P26628.pine,S=3862,W=3952:2,S 
1389715305.M250290P8929.pine,S=4264,W=4346:2,Sd
1379343742.M248785P27359.pine,S=4772,W=4891:2,RS 
1389723554.M26883P13831.pine,S=47655,W=47979:2,d
1379343783.M47728P27388.pine,S=22571,W=23053:2,S
root at pine:/home/john/Maildir/INBOX/cur#