Re: [Evolution] Disaster strikes -- 4000 messages deleted

[Reid Thompson <reid thompson ateb com>]

Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 18:10 -0400, Reid Thompson wrote:
> > Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> > > One of my important folders <Phred>, containing about 4000 messages, was
> > > moved into a subfolder of another folder and all the messages in <Phred>
> > > were deleted.  The messages are truly gone; unchecking "Hide Deleted
> > > Messages" does not show them.
>
> > What type of account is Phred in?  IMAP, maildir, or mbox, or ....
>
> Phred is in mbox form.  
>
> I would prefer to get my folders into maildir form.  How can I do this?
>
> Thanks - jon

It's been a while since i setup my maildir.. so you might want to google a 
bit/wait for another response but...
I think you can...
1) back everything up :) in case below is invalid
2) create a new account and choose type maildir for it
3) select and move mbox folder(s) into maildir account
4) configure incoming mail to be filtered into appropriate maildir folder(s)

alternatively you can use the gnu mailutils mailmove command to move email from 
one mailbox type to another -- i.e.  use mailmove to move the mbox files to a 
maildir, then create a new account of type maildir and point it to the mailmove 
created maildir ( google mailmove/man mailmove )