On 12.1.2012, at 20.32, Mark Moseley wrote: >>> On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 23:17 -0400, Micah Anderson wrote: >>>> I moved some mail into the alt storage: >>>> >>>> doveadm altmove -u jo...@example.com seen savedbefore 1w >>>> >>>> and now I want to move it back to the regular INBOX, but I can't see how >>>> I can do that with either 'altmove' or 'mailbox move'. >>> >>> Is this sdbox or mdbox? With sdbox you could simply "mv" the files. Or >>> apply patch: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/1910c76a6cc9 >> >> This is mdbox, which is why I am not sure how to operate because I am >> used to individual files as is with maildir. >> >> micah >> > > I'm curious about this too. Is moving the m.# file out of the ALT > path's storage/ directory into the non-ALT storage/ directory > sufficient? Or will that cause odd issues?
You can manually move m.* files to alt storage and back. Just make sure that the same file isn't being simultaneously modified by Dovecot or you'll corrupt it.
