Thanks Aaron for all the detailed answers. It helps to know how I got into this mess.
In regard to copying files, Kmail wasn't running while I copied. I'm learning that its not good to rely on a GUI to do the copying (I used Konqueror). I'll be tarballing my backups from now on. Peter On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > - if I've lost the emails, how should emails be copied and recovered in > > Kmail? > > by copying your Mail dir somewhere safe and (while KMail is NOT running) > copying it back to you ~/Mail... i've done this many times in the past... On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Thursday 31 July 2003 08:35, Peter E. Williams wrote: > > On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > > what are the contents of your current ~/Mail folder? (e.g. ls -la) > > > > The /Mail folders each have three folders: /cur /tmp and the third one I > > can't remember (it's my friend's computer and I'm not infront of it right > > now). Each of these folders look empty. There are 15 individual folders > > including the draft, inbox, outbox, send-mail, and trash. > > ok, so you are using maildir format ... the three directories are for mails > you haven't read (new/), mails you have (cur/) and somewhere to handle moving > mails about in a non-racy way (tmp/) ... > > in your backup copy, what do you see? the same thing? > > > - what is the purpose of the index files > > to make opening, listing and searching emails faster > > > (do the index files actually contain the emails) > > no > > > - why would the folders and hidden files only copy without showing the > > emails as files? > > because the (already read) emails should be in the cur/ maildir > subdirectories, so it looks like those didn't transfer over... > > > - could the emails be saved in another folder (such as /.kde3/share or > > some other folder in the /home/user directory > > no > > > - if I've lost the emails, how should emails be copied and recovered in > > Kmail? > > by copying your Mail dir somewhere safe and (while KMail is NOT running) > copying it back to you ~/Mail... i've done this many times in the past... > > > - the size of the backup /Mail folder is the same as the old working /Mail > > folder (suggesting that the backup /Mail folder has all the emails) > > hrm... can you do an `ls -la` in your ~/Mail dir, as per my original email? > > - -- > Aaron J. Seigo > GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE/KowL1rcusafx20MRAij/AJ4opvrKOPAYVf19taVFVhrONI+VIwCgqb7A > tKS1yrn+ITTDqf0ji7WfJTk= > =YzYz > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
