If you didn't already "Empty Trash" or "Expunge" you could look in the Trash folder. Do you have evolution set to confirm on empty trash and expunge?
Also, it is a bad idea to keep everything in your INBOX for an extended period of time, it increases the likelihood that things could be corrupted or accidently deleted. On a purely practical basis, it can take a lot longer to start up your e-mail client, and possibly on sending and receiving e-mail, because the client or server has to process your huge INBOX file. Think about it, the mail server and your e-mail clients are constantly reading & writing to the INBOX file and I have seen some cases where circumstances led to the whole INBOX getting trashed and have to be restored from tape. Also, keeping everything in your IMAP folders could give your mail admins a headache if it is difficult to keep enough free disk space on the server. I always create local folders and move old messages to the local folders for safe keeping for example Inbox2 -> Inbox-2002y03m, Sent2 -> Sent-2001y12m. I set some of my Vfolders to include "All Local Folders" to cover all of the old messages. Then you can periodically burn the local folders on CD, and possibly delete if you want. On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 13:22, Paul Hands wrote: > Hi, > > A cautionary tail and perhaps a plea for help......... > > I was experimenting with VFolders and doing some general mailbox > housekeeping on my exchange connector account. While paying attention > to a phone call, I accidentally clicked delete on the "unmatched" > VFolder instead of the one next to it. Now, my inbox, and some other > folders are empty. Some of the messages showed up in the deleted items > folder but a whole lot have just evaporated. That's most of my important > emails since January :-( > > 1. Don't delete that VFolder > 2. Is there any way back (I doubt it, but...)? > > Paul > > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution -- "Jonathan F. Dill" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) UMBI CARB IT Coordinator Experimental Support Site http://concept.umbi.umd.edu _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
