Symptoms
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After restoring a domain from a backup via Plesk > Tools & Settings > Backup Manager, email messages show backup restoration date and time as the time they were received on the Apple mail client.
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Other mail clients and webmail show the correct date and time when the email messages were received.
Cause
Product issues:
- #PPPM-10282 Open
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#PMT-4559 "After migrating mail, actual dates when emails were received are no longer changed to the date of migration on certain mail clients (for example Apple Mail)."
Fixed in:- Plesk Migrator 2.19.0 11 March 2020
- Site Import 1.4.3 20 February 2020
Resolution
Workaround
If an update is not possible for some reason you may try the following
workaround
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Connect to the server via SSH.
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Download this script to fix the email files timestamp by running the command below:
# wget https://support.plesk.com/hc/en-us/article_attachments/4407730641426/PMT-4559_mtime_update.sh
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Give execution permission to the downloaded script file:
# chmod +x PMT-4559_mtime_update.sh
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Run the script with the target mailbox name:
# ./PMT-4559_mtime_update.sh [email protected]
Or multiple mailboxes:
# ./PMT-4559_mtime_update.sh [email protected] [email protected]
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After the script execution is finished, log out and log in back to the mail client and check timestamps.
In some cases, Dovecot indexes might also need to be rebuilt. For this, dovecot index files for each affected mail account should be moved from the default directory.
Note: It should be done separately for each affected account. In the example below, index files are moved for the account jdoe existing for the domain example.com ([email protected]):
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Create the destination directory for the index files to be moved:
# mkdir -p /root/indexback/jdoe
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Move the Dovecot index files:
# mv /var/qmail/mailnames/example.com/jdoe/Maildir/dovecot.index* /root/indexback/jdoe/
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Log out and log in back to the mail client.
