MCBastos wrote:
Interviewed by CNN on 11/05/2011 15:19, sean bean told the world:
having to do a bit of e'mail recovery triage... i'd like to recover my
sent messages from some old profiles created before Mozilla converted TB
and SeaMonkey over to the new archive system...
but i have no idea what to do with the old .sbd folders which apparently
somehow helped store my replies to my incoming mail...
OK, it's not that complicated. Seamonkey uses a variation of the classic
MBOX mail storage format. One of the good points of it is that it's easy
to move mail folders around.
Let's start with your "Mail" folder inside your profile. Inside it you
will find subfolders named after your mail account servers and other
special mail "trees", such as the "Local Folders" tree and the "Feeds" tree.
Now open one of the mail server folders. Inside it you will find some
pairs of files -- a large one with no file extension, and a small one
with the "msf" file extension. They correspond to the mail folders in
your system -- you probably will find a pair named "Inbox", a pair named
"Sent" and so forth. The large ones are the actual mail repositories,
each one containing anything from zero to several thousand messages. The
small MSF ones are just indexes -- they are a convenience to speed up
things, but if you delete one the next time Seamonkey opens the mail
folder it will rebuild the index with no lost information (in fact, a
few problems can be solved by deleting the MSF files).
Now, what if you create a subfolder inside, say, the Inbox folder? Like
a subfolder containing all your mail from 2010, named "2010"? Simple:
Seamonkey creates an "Inbox.sbd" file folder and places any repositories
for the Inbox subfolders inside it. So, in my example above, if you open
the Inbox.sbd file folder, you will find a "2010" file and a "2010.msf"
file inside it.
The neat part is that, unlike say Outlook Express (ugh!), you can just
drop a mail repository file anywhere in your existing mail file folder
structure, named any way you want it, and next time you open Seamonkey
it will figure it out. Instead of a "master file" recording how a
filename maps to a folder name and a place in the mail tree structure,
the file folder tree IS the mail tree structure.
Thanks for the great explanation!
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