DJA wrote:
> I accidentally deleted the contents of an Inbox in Thunderbird (MTB). I
> know how to recover it, but doing it by hand will be tedious for several
> hundreds (thousands?) of emails. So, I need some command line magic or a
> script to do it for me.
>
> Basically, there is a line near the top of each email in the Inbox file
> of a form similar to
>
> X-Mozilla-Status: nnnn
>
> where the actual value (nnnn) can be anything (e.g. 001d, ,0019, 0007,
> 0009, etc.). Apparently, this is a bit value. If an email has been
> deleted, the 8 bit will be set. In the examples above, 001d, 0019, and
> 0009 would flag email as having been deleted. An email with a value of
> 0007, for instance, would not be flagged as deleted.
>
> I need a way to reset (switch to 0) the 8 bit of the X-Mozilla-Status
> field in every email in the Inbox file.
>
I'm sure you need not be told..
..BUT..
you _will_ want to proceed cautiously (backups and all).
Isn't it possible to do that by simply deleting the ".msf" file.
I think it may need doing when Tbird is not running.
Good luck,
..jim
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