Recovering deleted mail

The aox undelete message searches for deleted messages and recovers those that match the search expression. It prints one line for each message it undeletes.

This command recovers any deleted messages in Nirmala's inbox that are from/to any easydns.com address:

aox undelete /users/nirmala/inbox address easydns.com

This command recovers any deleted messages that arrived less than two days ago:

aox undelete /users/nirmala/inbox younger 2

The search syntax is documented in the aox show search command. That command a good way to experiment with the search syntax.

You can recover messages for for at least undelete-time days, starting from the moment from the time a message is deleted, and ending when aox vacuum deletes the message for good. (It may be possible to undelete a message even later, since aox vacuum only deletes messages when that will free up space in the database.)

In case of questions, please write to info@oryx.com.

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Last modified: 2008-09-26
Location: aox.org/aox/undelete