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

Paul van der Vlis <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.cyrus
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello Simon and others,

Op 31-10-2022 om 15:46 schreef Simon Matter:
> 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.

Hmm, no I have not.
I've grepped for delayed and expunge in imapd.conf, but no...

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


I don't know what $deletedprefix is. But.. I could get all mail back 
with running:
/usr/lib/cyrus/bin/unexpunge -a -d user.username

;-)

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

Very much thank for your help!

But I must say that I don't understand this behaviour. So far I know an 
e-mail is gone on the server when I delete it...

I don't know which e-mail program was used on the phone.

With regards,
Paul van der Vlis


> Regards,
> Simon
> 

-- 
Paul van der Vlis Linux systeembeheer Groningen
https://vandervlis.nl/

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