Re: [Evolution] Suddenly mail disappear

[Georg Rønning <georg gipsformen no>]

Hi Jeff,

I have found an emergency solution to the problem as my reply to Not
Zeds previous posting shows.

Thanks for your help.

Georg
On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 18:13, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 10:13, Georg Rønning wrote:
> [snip]
> > Good point, as we se accidents happen it should be an option to
> > continously make a backupfile of mailboxes.
>
> just use a cron job, evolution has no business making backups.
>
> > > You said that there were around 1300 mails in this inbox.
> > > Try to look for huge files on your harddisk that could match
> > > the possible size of your old inbox..
> >
> > I have not found any "strange" huge files astray, but I still have the
> > "enormous" mbox.ibex file of 1,5 Gb. As far as I understand this MUST be
> > related to the disappeared mailbox ? 
>
> somehow I think you are misreading the output of ls, but in any case
> that doesn't much matter.
>
> the mbox.ibex files are just an index of words that appear in each
> message so that we can do fast "Body Contains" searches.
>
> > I have tried most editors but the either hang or display  a mix of
> > letters and code and make no sense.
>
> yea, mbox.ibex files are binary, not plain text.
>
> Jeff
>
> -- 
> Jeffrey Stedfast
> Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
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