I think I accidentally deleted all the email in one Thunderbird
account's Inbox folder. And of course, because I didn't know I'd done
it, I also emptied the Trash folder. I'd like to get that mail back.
I have backed up both the Inbox, Inbox.msf, Trash, and Trash.msf
folders. Given their size, I can see that they probably still contain
the recently deleted email. I can also read the contents of both the
Inbox and Trash folders.
I've done the "Change the X-Mozilla-Status: value to 0000 thing" but
that does not seem to have any effect. I suspect that there is some
combination of mechanisms in MTB (Thunderbird) whereby not only is mail
in the original folder (Inbox) marked as deleted, but it's also marked
as deleted in the Trash folder. Maybe even somewhere else as well.
It looks like I have a few options:
1) find out how to make MTB see the mail normally (i.e. undelete it),
2) copy each email from the mbox file to a compose window and resend it
to myself,
3) figure out how to import the mbox file's contents back into MTB,
maybe using something like Mutt as an intermediary?,
4) ???.
Any suggestions on how any of those methods might be accomplished or
better alternatives to those will be greatly appreciated.
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~DJA.
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