[Dovecot] restored mails

[Oli Schacher]

On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 19:00:27 +0000
Wojciech Giel <wojciech.giel at cimr.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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.

Have you verified the the ownership/permissions of the restored files?
Also check for any warnings/errors in your maillog when you access that
mailbox.