Jonathan N. Little wrote on 16-03-18 15:14:
Daniel wrote:
dirk wrote on 16/03/18 21:49:
can an accidentally deleted message be recovered?
It is no longer in the trash map.
Dirk, have you compacted your inbox file since you occidentally
deleted your message??
Normally, when you delete an e-mail, it is not actually deleted, just
a bit of coding at the start of the message is changed to indicate
not to display that e-mail as being in the Inbox.
When you "Empty the Trash", I'm guessing that bit of coding is
changed again to indicate not to show the e-mail in the Trash folder,
either.
When you "File->Compact Folders" then the e-mail is totally history!!
If you haven't "File->Compact Folders" since deleting the e-mail, I
think the e-mail would still be recoverable by closing SeaMonkey and
opening the file called "inbox" without the suffix and without the ""
in a text editor (maybe save it somewhere else, first!!) such as
Notepad/Wordpad and searching for some distinctive text (do you
remember the Subject:??) and editing that message to make it visible.
I don't know what you actually need to change or what you should
change it to .... but, maybe, someone else will drop by with that
information!
To add to what Daniel wrote IF you have not compacted folders there is
a way to recover your messages. Also this only applies to POP mail
which resides on your own computer.
SeaMonkey|Thunderbird uses mbox format for mail in which all the
messages are in a single text file. When you move or delete a message
the data is not really removed from the file but just a bitflag is set
in the message header (again IF not compacted). Each message has a
header and a line:
X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
The above means message has been viewed the next example below means
it has been deleted.
X-Mozilla-Status: 0009
Reference for the flags is you are interested can be found here:
<https://dxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/mailnews/base/public/nsMsgMessageFlags.h>
So with a simple search and replace you can restore your messages. The
mailbox file often is too big for many text editors. It can easily be
done with a regular expression using sed or perl.
For example with sed to recover Inbox on for account smtp.example.com:
1) First close SeaMonkey
2) Move to the mail directory in profile smtp.example.com in a
command|terminal window
3) Enter command:
sed -r "s/X-Mozilla-Status: 0[0-9a-f]{3}/X-Mozilla-Status: 0000/" Sent
> Recovered
4) Start SeaMonkey Mail and in that account will be a new mail folder
"Recovered" with all your Inbox messages set to pristine unread state.
In Windows you can install a port of sed, or use the regexp with some
Windows app with such search and replace feature.
Note: I took the most conservative approach in not overwriting the
original Inbox file. You can move mail by drag and drop to restore
your messages or just delete Inbox file and rename Recovered file to
Inbox.
Under windows, you can use: and change in the text-part instead of the
hex-part..
*** Free-hex-editor-neo ***
https://www.hhdsoftware.com/free-hex-editor
Downloaded: free-hex-editor-neo.exe
Hex Editor Neo 6.31
Hex Editor - Binary File Editing Software for Large Files
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