dovecot - Nov 2014 - how to recover mails - dovecot 2.2.13

Hi,

I still have a messed up user account, with no mail client (appl mail,
thunderbird, sogo) mails show up as expected. Folders look empty, some
have something in it, but cant access the mails.

My idea is, to move the users mal folder, let him regenerate the
folderstructure from scratch and than reimport the old mails.

Question: We use maildir. Can I just copy the "old" mails from e.g.

user-backup/Maildir/curl/*

to

user/Maildir/curl/*

Or which steps are needed? rebuilding any index or something etc ....?


	Thanks very much for any suggestion!

	Regards . G?tz
-- 
G?tz Reinicke
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Il 20/11/2014 09:33, G?tz Reinicke - IT Koordinator ha
scritto:
> Question: We use maildir. Can I just copy the "old" mails from
e.g.
>
> user-backup/Maildir/curl/*
>
> to
>
> user/Maildir/curl/*
>
> Or which steps are needed? rebuilding any index or something etc ....?
Yes, you can move Maildir/cur/ and new/ to other account and delete all 
dovecot.* cache/log files in Maildir/. At the frst login dovecot rebuild 
its cache and show your emails.