Re: [Evolution] Suddenly mail disappear

[Gopi <rgsecure yahoo co in>]

Try using debugfs and recover the deleted inode based on time of
deletion and size. ofcourse this will work only if you are using ext2
file system for that partition and not much file transfers happened in
that partition.

All the Best,

Regards,
S.Gopi

On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 19:43, Georg Rønning wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 10:51, Marcus Franke wrote:
>
>
> > Do you have any backups from before the "crash"?
> > Your old inbox mbox file could be gone forever..
> > With the loss of all old mail data.
>
> Last backup is dated 6.6 but unfortuneately between this date and
> yesterday is quite a few important business mail tucked away in the mail
> bokbox that disappered. -:(
>  
> > Thats why I asked for the option to change from mbox to maildir..
>
> Good point, as we se accidents happen it should be an option to
> continously make a backupfile of mailboxes.
>
> > 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 ? 
>
> I have tried most editors but the either hang or display  a mix of
> letters and code and make no sense.
>  
> > But I still fear, that the mails are gone to electric heaven..
>
> Hope not, otherwise my business goes down the same way .... -:((
>
> Other rescue tips out there ? -:)
>
>
> Georg
>
>
>
>
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