Re: All mail removed, but it is on the filesystem

"Simon Matter" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.cyrus
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

> Hello,
>
> A customer had space-problems on her phone, and did remove all e-mail.
> Now it is gone in Thunderbird and in the webmail too...
>
> But it is still there if I look in /var/spool/cyrus/mail/ .
>
> I still have a backup, not sure what's the best to do.
>
> With regards,
> Paul van der Vlis

I expect this is because you have "delete_mode: delayed" and/or
"expunge_mode: delayed" in your config.

You should be able to recover the mails by either renaming them from the
$deletedprefix or by running "unexpunge".

Sorry, I don't really remember all the details...

Regards,
Simon


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