------ Original Message ------
From "Peter Humphrey" <
peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
To
gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Date 02.06.2025 11:52:34
Subject [gentoo-user] Recovering mail
Greetings,
My user's .maildir has overfilled and so I've lost some emails. However, I have
a cron job running every five minutes to rsync .maildir to /mnt/mailbu. The >question is: can I just copy mailbu over .maildir?
There might be some duplicates depending on e.g. the message state,
which is encoded in the filename.
Try rsync -avn /mnt/malibu/ ~/.maildir for a dry-run that should
tell you what would be copied. If the results look reasonable
stop dovecot and kmail, run again without the -n, start dovecot.
At least that's what I would do to fix my maildir.
Good luck,
s.
The mail chain is fetchmail (POP3) > postfix > dovecot > kmail (IMAP4).
--
Regards,
Peter.
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<body><div>------ Original Message ------</div><div>
<div>From "Peter Humphrey" <<a href="mailto:
peter@prh.myzen.co.uk">
peter@prh.myzen.co.uk</a>></div>
<div>To <a href="mailto:
gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org">
gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org</a></div>
<div>Date 02.06.2025 11:52:34</div>
<div>Subject [gentoo-user] Recovering mail</div></div><div x-em-quote=""><br /></div>
<div id="x25588eb4fe99460" class="plain"><blockquote cite="4994515.GXAFRqVoOG@cube" type="cite" class="cite2">
<div class="plain_line">Greetings,</div>
<div class="plain_line"> </div>
<div class="plain_line">My user's .maildir has overfilled and so I've lost some emails. However, I have</div>
<div class="plain_line">a cron job running every five minutes to rsync .maildir to /mnt/mailbu. The</div>
<div class="plain_line">question is: can I just copy mailbu over .maildir?</div></blockquote><span><div id="x25588eb4fe99460" class="plain"><span><br /></span></div><div id="x25588eb4fe99460" class="plain"><span>There might be some duplicates depending
on e.g. the message state,</span></div><div id="x25588eb4fe99460" class="plain"><span>which is encoded in the filename.</span></div><div id="x25588eb4fe99460" class="plain"><br /></div><div id="x25588eb4fe99460" class="plain"><span>Try rsync -avn /mnt/
malibu/ ~/.maildir for a dry-run that should</span></div><div id="x25588eb4fe99460" class="plain"><span>tell you what would be copied. If the results look reasonable</span></div><div id="x25588eb4fe99460" class="plain"><span>stop dovecot and kmail, run
again without the -n, start dovecot.</span></div><div id="x25588eb4fe99460" class="plain"><span><br /></span></div><div id="x25588eb4fe99460" class="plain"><span>At least that's what I would do to fix my maildir.</span></div><div id="x25588eb4fe99460"
class="plain"><span><br /></span></div><div id="x25588eb4fe99460" class="plain"><span>Good luck,</span></div><div id="x25588eb4fe99460" class="plain"><span>s.</span></div><br /></span><blockquote cite="4994515.GXAFRqVoOG@cube" type="cite" class="cite2"><
div class="plain_line"><br /></div>
<div class="plain_line"> </div>
<div class="plain_line">The mail chain is fetchmail (POP3) > postfix > dovecot > kmail (IMAP4).</div>
<div class="plain_line"> </div>
<div class="plain_line">--</div>
<div class="plain_line">Regards,</div>
<div class="plain_line">Peter.</div>
<div class="plain_line"> </div>
<div class="plain_line"> </div>
<div class="plain_line"> </div>
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