The files in the tmp directory were not showing up in my mailbox.
I resolved both using the following technique. Anyone can see the solution in
the archives if they run into the same situation.
Create a temporary mailbox (.INBOX.tmp_email).
For each mailbox that had an issue, Items 1) and 2) below)
Move in Linux (mv command) all suspect files from 1) and 2) below into the
.INBOX.tmp_email/cur directory.
Use mail client to move the messages from tmp_email mailbox to the
<original mailbox>.
Verify in Linux that the files are correctly formatted in the <original
mailbox>/cur directory
Everything is running smoothly now.
David
> On Nov 29, 2020, at 4:09 PM, Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi at
open-xchange.com> wrote:
>
> Not sure if this actually has any impact, do you get an error?
>
> Aki
>
>> On 29/11/2020 20:02 David Morsberger <david at mmpcrofton.com>
wrote:
>>
>>
>> Ping - anyone know how I should clean up my ?mess?? :)
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Nov 26, 2020, at 7:42 PM, David Morsberger <david at
mmpcrofton.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> I had to restore many thousands of dovecot emails from a crashed
Mac Server to a new Ubuntu server. After completing I am noticing a few things
that may be okay or may need to be fixed.
>>>
>>> 1) a couple of mailboxes have a lot (one has 102462) emails in the
tmp directory. The files do not have the standard Mairdir++ filename format. An
example:
>>> 1581262582.M397740P72267.mini.mmpcrofton.com
(http://1581262582.m397740p72267.mini.mmpcrofton.com/) (missing the stuff at the
end,,S=,W=:2,S)
>>>
>>> 2) I see files in the cur directory that do not have the Maildir++
format. An example:
>>> 1601287326.V810Ie80087M240104.mmp-mail.mmpcrofton.com
(http://1601287326.v810ie80087m240104.mmp-mail.mmpcrofton.com/):2,S. (do not
have the,S=,W= values and the second value, V810Ie80087M240104, is longer that
the other file names)
>>>
>>>
>>> How do I get the emails in (1) out of tmp?
>>>
>>> Do I need to convert the emails in (2)?
>>>
>>> David
>>