[olug] Fw: kmail ate my inbox

[Brian Wiese]

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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