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 _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
