Re: [Evolution] Recovering cached mail

2007-02-09 Thread Andrew Montalenti
Mbox files are defined as rfc822 mail messages split by a blank line and a line starting with From_, which is F, r, o, m and a space. It's possible some of the lines in your mbox file don't follow this convention, and maybe that's why Evolution is having a hard time parsing it. For example, I

Re: [Evolution] Recovering cached mail

2007-02-08 Thread Andrew Montalenti
If those really are rfc822 mail files, you could probably just concatenate them together (which would produce an mbox file) and copy the mbox file to ~/.evolution/mail/local/. Something like: cd ~/.evolution/mail/exchange/acct/personal/sub/folders/Saved\ Items/ cat * cache-mbox mv cache-mbox

Re: [Evolution] Recovering cached mail

2007-02-08 Thread James McCaw
That is the first thing I tried, except I didn't have the spaces between the concatenated files...I'll give it a shot... Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work. The file command claims my concatenated file is indeed RFC 822 mail text, but when dumped into ~/.evolution/mail/local it doesn't show up

[Evolution] Recovering cached mail

2007-02-06 Thread James McCaw
Hi evolution mailing list Today I accidently deleted some mail (only about 30 messages) from an exchange server account. I discovered I have a locally cached copy in the directory ~/.evolution/mail/exchange/account name/personal/sub folders/Saved Items/ In that directory there are two binary