Nicola, this might be a nice thing to have in docs somewhere. it's non-obvious just from reading specs, but it is a very nice side effect of esearch. Bron On Fri, 31 Mar 2017, at 08:43, Xavier Bestel wrote: > ... aaand it worked like a charm ! > I spent way more time setting up a new serveur from the backup than > doing the flags restore. Thanks again ! > > Xav > > Le jeudi 30 mars 2017 à 09:49 +0200, Xavier Bestel a écrit : > > Thanks a lot Bron, precisely the kind of thing I was looking for :) > > > > Regards, > > Xav > > > > Le mercredi 29 mars 2017 à 12:12 -0500, Bron Gondwana a écrit : > > > Actually, if you restore from backup to another Cyrus instance and > > > can log in it's very easy using search-extended: > > > > > > telnet restoreserver 143 > > > . login username password > > > . select INBOX > > > . UID SEARCH RETURN () UNSEEN > > > * ESEARCH (TAG ".") UID ALL > > > 1015337,1015340:1015366,1015378:1015379,1015381,1015384 > > > . logout > > > > > > telnet productionserver 143 > > > . login username password > > > . select INBOX > > > . uid store 1015337,1015340:1015366,1015378:1015379,1015381,1015384 > > > -flags \Seen > > > . logout > > > > > > And you're done :) Repeat the search for any other mailbox. > > > > > > Bron. > > > > > > On Wed, 29 Mar 2017, at 10:34, James Cassell wrote: > > > > On Wed, Mar 29, 2017, at 04:18 AM, Xavier Bestel wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > I have done an unfortunate "mark all as read" on my mailbox, > > > > > and > > > > > I'm > > > > > not one of those "mailbox zero" guys. So I have lost some > > > > > valuable > > > > > information. But I have some (old) backups. > > > > > > > > > > So my question is: how do I retrieve the "read/unread" status > > > > > from the > > > > > (not so recent) backup, and how can I reapply it to my running > > > > > server > > > > > (which continues to receive mails regularly) ? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > You could do it with some invocations of imapsync. The quickest > > > > way would also restore any messages you may have deleted since > > > > your > > > > backup. Do an imapsync run with your backup server as "host1" > > > > and > > > > your live server as "host2". > > > > > > > > How I'd do it would be to take several steps: > > > > 1. Sync from your live server to a temporary server (or temp > > > > folder > > > > on the same server). > > > > 2. Apply a unique imap flag to all messages in the temporary > > > > server > > > > 3. sync from your backup to the temporary server. This will > > > > clear > > > > the unique flag on sync'ed messages. > > > > 4. delete from the temporary server all messages that still have > > > > the unique flag. > > > > 5. sync from the temporary server back to the live server. > > > > 6. delete the temporary server > > > > > > > > Hope that helps! > > > > > > > > V/r, > > > > James Cassell > > > > ---- > > > > Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ > > > > List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cy > > > > ru > > > > s/ > > > > To Unsubscribe: > > > > https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus > > > > > > > > > > ---- > > Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ > > List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ > > To Unsubscribe: > > https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus -- Bron Gondwana brong@xxxxxxxxxxx ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ To Unsubscribe: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus
