On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 03:06:15PM +0200, Leena Heino wrote: > On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > > > On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 13:26 +0200, Leena Heino wrote: > >> What is the recommended process to restore deleted messages or mailboxes > >> when delayed delete is in use? > > > > Use the unexpunge command; the man page isn't bad, and I have examples > > and some notes in the Cyrus chapter of WMOGAG > > <http://docs.opengroupware.org/Members/whitemice/wmogag/file_view>. > > The unexpunge command was the first thing I tried and I read it's man > page. But what puzzles me is that it seems that the deleted mailboxes > are not shown in unexpunge commands output. > > The mailbox meta files and mailbox's messages are shown in the spool dir > under the DELETED prefix eg. in the directory: > /cyrus_spool/u/DELETED/user/foo/sent-mail/HEXSTRING/ > > What is the correct procedure the restore this mailbox so that user is > able see the messages and access it once again. > You will need to move the mailbox back to the original location in the user's tree. unexpunge works on messages not entire folders. Cheers, Ken ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html