Messed up dovecot mail store, need some repair advice
Hello folks, I have an older dovecot 2.0 (which I will migrate to a 2.2 asap, but at this point in time I need a fix). This is a dovecot 2.0 that came with Mac OS X 10.8.5 Server 2.2.5. Today, my spam/virus filtering (clamav) on the Server broke down. As a result, all my meesages got the ***UNCHECKED*** tag added to each subject. That was clearly unacceptable. SO, for the tim ebeing I have set that tag to undef so the tag is no longer added. But I also wanted to repair the messages that already ended up in dovecot 2.0 So, I did something simple: stopped all mail services on the server, went into the dovecot mail store and edited the messages. I first tried with one small ccount and it seemed OK. But now my mail client is experiencing problems with the messages (cannot display) and I think I've been to simplistic. I have for instance notedthat th esizeof the message is part of the filename. So, I can change these of course, but probably I need to change more. Can someone enlighten me how I can repair the broken data store? Thanks, (Foolish) Gerben
Thanks. Losing 300 flags and unread on thousands of emails was not a preferred scenario. I was able to repair by - turning dovecote (and other mail services) off - find all message files that were changed in a certain period - check all their names against their file sizes (this found me the edited ones) - returning the ***UNCHECKED*** string to the Subject lines making the file sizes equal to the size as reported in the name of the file Which leaves me with something I would really like: change the subject line of 5-10 messages in dovecot, without destroying everything. I was thinking about the following scenario: - create a separate mailbox REPAIR within user X’s mail store (the INBOX, btw, is named ‘cur’) - move all to be changed messages there using the mail client - kill the mail client - stop dovecot - edit the messages and change the names of the files so the S= W= parts are in line with the new content. (I understand S, but what is W?) - run “devoid index -u user REPAIR” - start dovecot - start email client (potentially, reload the entire mail store for that user) Would that work? G
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Aki Tuomi
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Gerben Wierda