>On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Bart Coninckx wrote:

>> Can 't help put thinking that this is a load of work. Hopefully the
>> developpers will write some tools to simplify the restore procedure.

>If you run with expunge_mode:delayed, it's as simple as using the 
>unexpunge command.  :)

>After you restore the raw files from backups, what is hard about the steps 
>I provided?  It would be trivial to create a wrapper script which does 
>these steps for you I suppose.  There are quite a few different ways to 
>restore email (single messages, entire folders, entire user hierarchy). 
>I'm not sure there is a one-size-fits-all solution.

>       Andy

It's not not doable, it's only a bit ... cumbersome. Intuitively I would 
"reconstruct" expect to
simply scavange all directories and reconstruct whatever it comes across. That 
would be sweet :-)


Bart

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