[olug] OT - kmail ate my inbox

[Sean Edwards]

Maybe it migrated to your SearsMail and then deleted
your Kmail box.

A little retail humor for the holiday season.

-=Sean=-

--- Brian Wiese <bwiese at cotse.com> wrote:

> Ok, so after many unsuccesful attempts at recovering
> my email first, I did
> find that Kmail had simply converted my inbox from
> MH format to Maildir. 
> Now the 2 main email storage formats are Maildir and
> mbox, while my
> Sylpheed only supports MH... similiar but different
> from Maildir.  There's
> many mbox -> maildir, but only one Maildir -> mbox
> that I found:
> 
>
http://www.qmail.org/qmail-manual-html/man1/maildir2mbox.html
> 
> It's a binary though, and you need to compile qmail
> to get the program..
> this was quite quick with debian though.
> 
> apt-get install qmail uscpi-tcp (or qmail-src)  I
> forget
> 
> then follow the instructions in the man pages or
> /usr/share/doc/... for
> how to compile it.  Sylpheed has both an import and
> export to mbox
> feature, so I was then able to import all my inbox
> mail back from 2002
> without too much problem.  I think I'll start
> exporting to mbox and
> compressing for now on though!  There's just _way_
> too many files, when
> getting into 10k emails with MH/Maildir.
> 
> and my hard drive started knocking this morning, so
> I'm going to have to
> figure out some rsync on my home dir so that I don't
> loose it all when my
> drive dies out on me (wouldn't be the first time),
> yet I'm still so
> optimistic sometimes that I procrastinate to make
> backups.  =(
> 
> Brian
> 
> On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 10:16:04 +0100
> Brian Wiese <bwiese at cotse.com> wrote:
> 
> |
> |Ok, I've been using Sylpheed/Sylpheed-Claws for
> like 4 years now which
> |uses the MH file format? for managing email,
> instead of mbox to my
> |understanding.  I clicked on an email link in
> Konqueror the other day,
> |which popped up Kmail - which I closed promptly -
> but upon exiting
> though,
> |I noticed it was configured to 'auto compact mail'
> and did that.  Ever
> |since my inbox mail in Sylpheed was 'unreadable'
> (but seeable) and now
> |just 'gone' from my inbox.  My other mail is still
> intact.
> |
> |I can still see all the messages in Kmail, all
> duplicates actually, and
> |~/Mail/inbox still has all the mail messages. Does
> anyone have a
> |suggestion or test that I can do to make Sylpheed
> see all my mail again? 
> |I'm not completely  sure what all happened.
> |
> |Thanks
> |Brian
> |
> |~/Mail/inbox has a bunch of files named like this:
> |1099787016.6036.DXzc7  along with my inbox folders
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> |
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> 
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>
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