postfid/dovecot .maildir problem (loooots of "new" messages)

alienDog · 12-08-2006, 02:29 AM

Ok, here's the deal: We had to switch to another mailserver (an rsync "mirror" of the original) after a hardware-failure. We're using postfix/dovecot and the mail gets delivered to .maildirs in users homes. The problem is that after the switch lots of old messages got marked as new, so currently we have hundreds and hundreds of mails that show up as new mail in the mail-client (thunderbird), but are actually old. Any ideas?

billymayday · 12-08-2006, 08:22 PM

Here's a shell script I run from crontab to "read" anything in my spam folder. You could run something similar to fix your problem.

Quote:

#!/bin/bash
shopt -s nullglob

cd ~/Maildir/.Spam/new

# move files in new to cur - this happens when you view folder

if [ $( ls | wc -l ) -gt 0 ]
then cp * ../cur; rm *;
fi

cd ~/Maildir/.Spam/cur

# It also seems that filesnames of messages have ":2," added when folder viewed

for filename in *net ;do

newfile=$(echo $filename ":2," | tr -d " ")
mv $filename $newfile

done

#for filename in *['a'-'z'] ;do

# newfile=$(echo $filename ":2," | tr -d " ")
# mv $filename $newfile

#done

# Read messages have a capital S on the end (I guess for Seen)

for filename in *"," ;do

newfile=$(echo $filename "S" | tr -d " ")
mv $filename $newfile

done

cd ~/Maildir/.sa-learn/new

# move files in new to cur - this happens when you view folder

if [ $( ls | wc -l ) -gt 0 ]
then cp * ../cur; rm *;
fi

cd ~/Maildir/.sa-learn/cur

# It also seems that filesnames of messages have ":2," added when folder viewed

for filename in *net ;do

newfile=$(echo $filename ":2," | tr -d " ")
mv $filename $newfile

edit - btw - I use Postfix/Dovecot