On Sun, 2012-07-01 at 09:57 -0700, [email protected] wrote: > On 2012-07-01 07:54, MR ZenWiz wrote: > > I did File->Import and selected my old Inbox to import. As I said, > > it imported fine, but everything was marked unread and there were > > almost twice as many messages as I remembered being in my inbox - > > over > > 3000. (I know, too many, but still only 1899 should have been > > unread.) > > I suppose that part may be unavoidable.... > Evolution doesn't actually delete messages until you do some special > action (I can't remember what it is -- look through the menus and it'll > be obvious). When you "delete" a message in a folder it just gets > marked as deleted and not shown.
This isn't really Evolution specific; almost all mail clients [and mail storage] works this way. It make for more efficient I/O and avoids the need for a silly Trash folder [where a delete is actually a Move, and can't be reversed since you don't know where the message came from]/ > Go to "message" and hit the "view deleted messages" button to see what > I mean. > So if you lost your "I've read this" marks, you probably lost the "I > deleted this" marks, too. If you create an MBOX type account and point it at you old message folder you should have seen / deleted flags intact [I *believe*] as these are typically stored as status flags in the MBOX message.
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