Jay Garcia wrote:
... When mail is deleted it's marked for
deletion as you said. Mail can only be recovered that has been deleted
only IF the folders haven't been compacted. Until then, the deleted
message actually resides in the related .MSF file which can be read to
some degree in Wordpad for instance.
The deleted message still resides in the original mail file (not the
corresponding .msf file).
Also, note that one normally has three chances to recover a deleted
message:
1. Obviously, when regular deletion logically moves a message to the
Trash folder, the message is available normally from the Trash
folder.
2. That logical moving physically copies the message to the file that
implements the Trash folder, leaving the original copy in the file
that implements the original folder, but marking that original copy
as being deleted. It remains there until that folder is compacted.
If you (very carefully*) open the file to edit it, find the message,
find its X-Mozilla-Status header field, and turn off the "deleted"
bit (e.g., "X-Mozilla-Status: 0009" -> "X-Mozilla-Status: 0001",
etc.), and do Rebuild Index on the mail folder, the message will be
"undeleted" and available normally.
(*Don't try editing the file without making a backup copy unless you
really know what you're doing. It's probably safer to copy the
original file to a work file, edit that, re-start SeaMonkey so it
notices the work file, copy your wanted message to somewhere else,
and then delete the work file (which will also contain duplicate
copies of other message in the original folder/file).)
3. _If_ you delete the message from the Trash folder using the
delete-message command (_NOT_ Empty Trash), the copy in the file
the implements the Trash folder is marked deleted (as above) until
the Trash folder is compacted (via Compact Folder or Empty Trash).
It can be recovered the same way as above.
Daniel
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