Re: [Evolution] Recovering cached mail

[Andrew Montalenti <ajm pixelmonkey org>]

If those really are rfc822 mail files, you could probably just
concatenate them together (which would produce an mbox file) and copy
the mbox file to ~/.evolution/mail/local/.

Something like:

cd ~/.evolution/mail/exchange/<acct>/personal/sub/folders/Saved\ Items/
cat * >cache-mbox
mv cache-mbox ~/.evolution/mail/local/

It's possible that the rfc822 files do not end with a blank line.  If
that's so, the above may not work (mbox files are rfc822 messages
separated by blank lines).

When the cache-mbox file is in the evolution local mail directory,
restarting evolution should get it to show up in your folder list.

HTH, I am not an evolution expert (just user),
Andrew

On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 18:40 +1100, James McCaw wrote:
> Hi evolution mailing list
>
> Today I accidently deleted some mail (only about 30 messages) from an
> exchange server account. I discovered I have a locally cached copy in
> the directory ~/.evolution/mail/exchange/<account name>/personal/sub
> folders/Saved Items/
>
> In that directory there are two binary files "cmeta" and "summary" and
> a directory "cache" (with subdirs full of the RFC 822 mail files). I
> can confirm that the 30 missing messages are there by examing the
> files in "cache" one by one.
>
> Unfortunately I can't find a way to recover those files or import them
> back into evolution. The File->Import dialog doesn't allow me to
> import those files.
>
> Any tips? Thanks in advance for any replies.
>
> Cheers
> James