How to Safely Recover Email

[adam gould]

Hi All,

I misread the option in Thunderbird to "delete emails older than x days" for some reason I interpreted that as applying to Trash only.

I take daily backups using restic so I should have a good backup however this is my first time performing a restore. Is there a good reference I can read for your to properly merge the email from within my backup with my email currently on the server?

I assume I could simply use rsync but I dont want to overwrite anything I shouldnt. I really want to do a good job documenting this and ensure my recovery procedure is correct. This is my personal email server but its still a Production service for me now.

I am also using mail crypt plugin with dovecot so I dont want to go messing up my keys either!

Thanks

Adam