Re: [Evolution] convert to Maildir or IMAP from evolution's "offline backup"

[shawn <shawnlandden gmail com>]

On Fri, 2012-05-11 at 09:10 +0200, Milan Crha wrote: 
> On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 14:02 -0700, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 11:18 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 10:18 -0700, shawn wrote: 
> > > > I accidentally deleted alot of email from my IMAP server.
> > > > I made a copy of the offline copy that evolution makes
> >
> > That *is* Maildir.
>
>       Hi,
> well, it is and it is not. The ~/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/...
> uses MailDir, but the IMAP (not IMAP+) account in evolution doesn't use
> MailDir, neither mbox format, it has its own cache format, which stores
> messages in parts. It has its advantage of downloading respective parts
> on demand, like (large) attachments are downloaded only when their part
> is accessed, but the disadvantage is that restoring such local cache
> into messages is nontrivial from outside.
>
> I would try to locate correct folder in
> ~/.local/share/evolution/mail/<imap-account-id>/
> (in 3.4.0+ it's in ~/.cache/evolution/mail/<imap-account-id>/)
> for your IMAP account with accidentally deleted messages. Rename that
> folder to something else, then copy there the content of it from the
> backup, then run evolution in offline:
>    $ evolution --offline
> and copy all the messages from the account to your local folder (at
> least those which are accessible in offline IMAP cache). Then close
> evolution, return back the original IMAP account local cache folder, run
> evolution in online:
>    $ evolution --online
> wait till it synchronizes its content and then copy those copied
> messages from local folder back to your IMAP server.


I have too many accounts there, all names cryptically, seemingly by a
timestamp. I don't know which one to copy to. Also, even though it would
happen in offline mode, this seems a little too risky for me after I
just lost all that email. 

Those backups do look good however.

-- 
-Shawn Landden