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RECONSTRUCT(8)
NAME
  reconstruct - reconstruct mailboxes

SYNOPSIS
  reconstruct [ -r ] mailbox...
  reconstruct -m

DESCRIPTION
  Reconstruct rebuilds one or more IMAP mailboxes.  When invoked with the -m
  switch, it rebuilds the master mailboxes file.  It can be used to recover
  from almost any sort of data corruption.

  If Reconstruct can find existing header and index files, it attempts to
  preserve any data in them that is not derivable from the message files
  themselves.  The state reconstruct attempts to preserve includes the flag
  names, flag state, and internaldate.	Reconstruct derives all other
  information from the message files.

  Reconstruct reads its configuration options out of the imapd.conf(5) file.
  Any mailbox directory underneath the path specified in the partition-news
  configuration option is assumed to be in news format.

  Reconstruct does not adjust the quota usage recorded in any quota root
  files.  After running reconstruct, it is advisable to run quota(8) with the
  -f switch in order to fix the quota root files.

OPTIONS
  -r   Recursively reconstruct all sub-mailboxes of the mailboxes or mailbox
       prefixes given as arguments.

  -m   Rebuild the mailboxes file.  Use whatever data in the existing
       mailboxes file it can scavenge, then scans all partitions listed in
       the imapd.conf(5) file for additional mailboxes.

FILES
  /etc/imapd.conf

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