Greetings,
while reordering some backups, I found a tar file containing a
maildir-like mailbox. By this I mean that it was a folder with 3
subfolders with the right names:
old_email/cur
old_email/new
old_email/tmp
and thousands of files in it (almost all in /cur). I opened it with
Mutt (Mutt
* M. Fioretti mfiore...@nexaima.net [10-03-12 11:55]:
...
The point is that now the mailbox shows as empty in Mutt, but a
find old_email -type f
returns several hundreds of files, all valid email messages if the few
ones I have looked into with less are representative.
Right now I have
On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 05:36:03PM +0200, M. Fioretti wrote:
Greetings,
while reordering some backups, I found a tar file containing a
maildir-like mailbox. By this I mean that it was a folder with 3
subfolders with the right names:
old_email/cur
old_email/new
old_email/tmp
[...]
The
On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 13:25:01 PM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
try opening the location where old_email is, specifically:
mutt -f specific-location
ie: mutt -f /home/user/mail/old_mail
this didn't make any difference, but trying yours and Jeremy's
suggestions helped me to find the real