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. In the case a folder is deleted, is something special dovecot does to the email? Or it just run the unlink() function? In the case of compacting a folder, I think thats just a client side action. Many thanks Oliver -- Oliver Schulze L. | http://tinymailto.com/oliver Asuncion - Paraguay | http://www.solojuegos.mobi
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. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20070826/b34a1579/attachment-0002.bin>
Oliver Schulze L., on 8/25/2007 6:02 PM, said the following:> Hi, > one user of my imap server just deleted a whole folder, blame thunderbirdEh? Why blame the program for a user error? -- Best regards, Charles
Hi Timo, many thanks, I could restore all emails. Regards, Oliver Timo Sirainen wrote:> 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. >-- Oliver Schulze L. Asuncion - Paraguay http://tinymailto.com/oliver