That is the first thing I tried, except I didn't have the spaces between the concatenated files...I'll give it a shot...
Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work. The "file" command claims my concatenated file is indeed RFC 822 mail text, but when dumped into ~/.evolution/mail/local it doesn't show up in evolution (a directory appears but it doesn't have any emails in it). "file" run on files in ~/.evolution/mail/local indicates that they are "ISO-8859 mail text, with very long lines" so the question is now: How does one (easily!) convert an RFC 822 file to the appropriate evolution local directory format? Thanks for your input Andrew. Cheers James On 09/02/07, Andrew Montalenti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If those really are rfc822 mail files, you could probably just > concatenate them together (which would produce an mbox file) and copy > the mbox file to ~/.evolution/mail/local/. > > Something like: > > cd ~/.evolution/mail/exchange/<acct>/personal/sub/folders/Saved\ Items/ > cat * >cache-mbox > mv cache-mbox ~/.evolution/mail/local/ > > It's possible that the rfc822 files do not end with a blank line. If > that's so, the above may not work (mbox files are rfc822 messages > separated by blank lines). > > When the cache-mbox file is in the evolution local mail directory, > restarting evolution should get it to show up in your folder list. > > HTH, I am not an evolution expert (just user), > Andrew > > On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 18:40 +1100, James McCaw wrote: > > Hi evolution mailing list > > > > Today I accidently deleted some mail (only about 30 messages) from an > > exchange server account. I discovered I have a locally cached copy in > > the directory ~/.evolution/mail/exchange/<account name>/personal/sub > > folders/Saved Items/ > > > > In that directory there are two binary files "cmeta" and "summary" and > > a directory "cache" (with subdirs full of the RFC 822 mail files). I > > can confirm that the 30 missing messages are there by examing the > > files in "cache" one by one. > > > > Unfortunately I can't find a way to recover those files or import them > > back into evolution. The File->Import dialog doesn't allow me to > > import those files. > > > > Any tips? Thanks in advance for any replies. > > > > Cheers > > James > > > > -- James McCaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
