Re: [Evolution] Recovering cached mail

["James McCaw" <james mccaw gmail com>]

That is the first thing I tried, except I didn't have the spaces
between the concatenated files...I'll give it a shot...

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work. The "file" command claims my
concatenated file is indeed RFC 822 mail text, but when dumped into
~/.evolution/mail/local it doesn't show up in evolution (a directory
appears but it doesn't have any emails in it).

"file" run on files in ~/.evolution/mail/local indicates that they are
"ISO-8859 mail text, with very long lines" so the question is now: How
does one (easily!) convert an RFC 822 file to the appropriate
evolution local directory format?

Thanks for your input Andrew.

Cheers
James

On 09/02/07, Andrew Montalenti <ajm pixelmonkey org> wrote:
> 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
> >


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James McCaw
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