[opensuse] in thunderbird, all my saved list mails not showing, but still in file
Listmates, In thunderbird, I did something that made all my saved opensuse list messages disappear. I thought at first I had deleted them with a stray ctrl+shif+A followed by a shift+del, (accidentally done with 'caplocks' on) but apparently I didn't do that because all the messages are still in my "/home/david/.thunderbird/2k12pnl0.default/Mail/pop.suddenlinkmail.com/openSuSE" file. Looking at the file in text it contains all the saved mails for approximately the past year, but only the messages for the last 2 days are visible from within thunderbird itself. I have checked all the "view setting" so that isn't the problem. One thing that has changed is the ".../openSuSE.msf" file size. It has gone from several megabytes down to ~30k. I know this is where the problem lies, but this is where I am stuck. I have tried right-clicking the folder->properties->rebuild index, but that just rebuilds the index for the past couple of days. I have tried moving the file somewhere else and forcing a rebuild, but that doesn't work either. There must be something else I need to delete. I have a backup, but not with all the threads trimmed down, etc. I would like to find a fix so I don't have to wade through that again. How do I tell tbird to reindex all the messages and give me the full folder back?? It seems like a simple reindex should do, but no dice. Anybody have any experience/suggestions on this one? -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
David C. Rankin wrote:
Listmates,
In thunderbird, I did something that made all my saved opensuse list messages disappear. I thought at first I had deleted them with a stray ctrl+shif+A followed by a shift+del, (accidentally done with 'caplocks' on) but apparently I didn't do that because all the messages are still in my "/home/david/.thunderbird/2k12pnl0.default/Mail/pop.suddenlinkmail.com/openSuSE" file. Looking at the file in text it contains all the saved mails for approximately the past year, but only the messages for the last 2 days are visible from within thunderbird itself.
I have checked all the "view setting" so that isn't the problem. One thing that has changed is the ".../openSuSE.msf" file size. It has gone from several megabytes down to ~30k. I know this is where the problem lies, but this is where I am stuck. I have tried right-clicking the folder->properties->rebuild index, but that just rebuilds the index for the past couple of days. I have tried moving the file somewhere else and forcing a rebuild, but that doesn't work either. There must be something else I need to delete. I have a backup, but not with all the threads trimmed down, etc. I would like to find a fix so I don't have to wade through that again.
How do I tell tbird to reindex all the messages and give me the full folder back?? It seems like a simple reindex should do, but no dice. Anybody have any experience/suggestions on this one?
OK, Looks like is will be the mother of all find-and-replaces or a sed script to parse the file and reset: X-Mozilla-Status: xxxx Now all I have to do is find a good reference on X-Mozilla-Status: flags. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
David C. Rankin wrote:
David C. Rankin wrote:
Listmates,
In thunderbird, I did something that made all my saved opensuse list messages disappear. I thought at first I had deleted them with a stray ctrl+shif+A followed by a shift+del, (accidentally done with 'caplocks' on) but apparently I didn't do that because all the messages are still in my "/home/david/.thunderbird/2k12pnl0.default/Mail/pop.suddenlinkmail.com/openSuSE" file. Looking at the file in text it contains all the saved mails for approximately the past year, but only the messages for the last 2 days are visible from within thunderbird itself.
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How do I tell tbird to reindex all the messages and give me the full folder back?? It seems like a simple reindex should do, but no dice. Anybody have any experience/suggestions on this one?
OK,
Looks like is will be the mother of all find-and-replaces or a sed script to parse the file and reset:
X-Mozilla-Status: xxxx
Now all I have to do is find a good reference on X-Mozilla-Status: flags.
Well, It wasn't pretty, but you can, for the most part, recover all accidentally deleted files in a thunderbird mailbox. The key is the mail header line containing "X-Mozilla-Status: xxxx" where xxxx is a four hex-digit code for the messages status (new, read, forwarded, replied, deleted, etc...). I attempted to do this by script, but ran into limitations with the bash builtin "read" stripping leading whitespace from the mail header lines so I ended up doing a simple search and replace in vi using %s/X-Mozilla-Status: xxxx/X-Mozilla-Status: yyyy/ to update the values to undelete the messages. To accomplish this, basically exit tbird. Locate your mailbox location. It will usually be stored under the directory structure similar to: ~/.thunderbird/[hash].default/Mail/[your account]/[mailboxname]. My openSuSE messages were stored in the following location: ~/.thunderbird/2k12pnl0.default/Mail/pop.suddenlinkmail.com/openSuSE Make a BACKUP COPY of your mailboxname. I just used mailboxname.sav. Then edit your mailbox in an editor that can handle search and replace and update the value of the X-Mozilla-Status: entries so that tbird will make them visible the next time you start tbird. The basic scheme of the xxxx code is: x3 x2 x1 x0 (that is where x0 is the least significant x for lack of better words). Their "loose" definitions are as follows: x0: [ 0=new, 1=read, 2=replysent, 3=(1+2), 4=userset, other flags, 8=moved ,9=deleted(1+8), b=deleted(3+8) ] Evidently, the thunderbird scheme is to add "8" to x0 to mark the message as deleted and not displayed. x1: [ 0=default, 1="subject has Re:", 2="children of subthread folded", 8="offline read for imap ] x2: [ 1="thread is watched", 2="sender was authenticated", 4="partial of multipart", 8="queued for delivery" x3: [ 0=default, 1="message has been forwarded" ] So basically to recover your messages all you care about is "x0", but to preserve as much of your mail message statuses, you just don't want to set everything back to 0000. Here is the replacement scheme I used with vi search and replace: :%s/X-Mozilla-Status: 1019/X-Mozilla-Status: 1011/ :%s/X-Mozilla-Status: 1009/X-Mozilla-Status: 1001/ :%s/X-Mozilla-Status: 001b/X-Mozilla-Status: 0013/ :%s/X-Mozilla-Status: 0019/X-Mozilla-Status: 0011/ :%s/X-Mozilla-Status: 000b/X-Mozilla-Status: 0003/ :%s/X-Mozilla-Status: 0009/X-Mozilla-Status: 0001/ The next time I started the mailer, all the messages reappeared. As I mentioned earlier, I attempted to do this by script, but 'read' was stripping the leading spaces and I just wanted it done. I'll follow up with a separate post on that. However, for the curious, here is where I was headed: { while read XTAG VALUE LINE; do if [[ ${XTAG} == "X-Mozilla-Status:" ]]; then case ${VALUE} in 1019 ) NEWVAL=1011;; 1009 ) NEWVAL=1001;; 001b ) NEWVAL=0013;; 0019 ) NEWVAL=0011;; 000b ) NEWVAL=0003;; 0009 ) NEWVAL=0001;; * ) NEWVAL=${VALUE};; esac echo -e "${XTAG} ${NEWVAL} ${LINE}" >> ${NEWFILE} else echo -e "${XTAG} ${VALUE} ${LINE}" >> ${NEWFILE} fi XTAG=''; VALUE=''; LINE=''; NEWVAL='' done } < ~/.thunderbird/2k12pnl0.default/Mail/pop.suddenlinkmail.com/openSuSE.sav -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
David C. Rankin wrote:
It wasn't pretty, but you can, for the most part, recover all accidentally deleted files in a thunderbird mailbox. The key is the mail header line containing "X-Mozilla-Status: xxxx" where xxxx is a four hex-digit code for the messages status (new, read, forwarded, replied, deleted, etc...). I attempted to do this by script, but ran into limitations with the bash builtin "read" stripping leading whitespace from the mail header lines so I ended up doing a simple search and replace in vi using %s/X-Mozilla-Status: xxxx/X-Mozilla-Status: yyyy/ to update the values to undelete the messages.
I ran into this problem a year ago at work and since I had a lot of folders, I wrote my own C++ program to fix all the folders. Your post just reminded me of that so I found my old program which I will need because I just had this problem at home. When I found this problem the first time, I learned about the fix after searching Mozilla. Since this is a known problem, I don't know why Thunderbird doesn't have a repair tool. Damon Register -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Damon Register wrote:
David C. Rankin wrote:
It wasn't pretty, but you can, for the most part, recover all accidentally deleted files in a thunderbird mailbox. The key is the mail header line containing "X-Mozilla-Status: xxxx" where xxxx is a four hex-digit code for the messages status (new, read, forwarded, replied, deleted, etc...). I attempted to do this by script, but ran into limitations with the bash builtin "read" stripping leading whitespace from the mail header lines so I ended up doing a simple search and replace in vi using %s/X-Mozilla-Status: xxxx/X-Mozilla-Status: yyyy/ to update the values to undelete the messages.
I ran into this problem a year ago at work and since I had a lot of folders, I wrote my own C++ program to fix all the folders. Your post just reminded me of that so I found my old program which I will need because I just had this problem at home. When I found this problem the first time, I learned about the fix after searching Mozilla. Since this is a known problem, I don't know why Thunderbird doesn't have a repair tool.
Damon Register
Evidently the "nightly build" of thunderbird does have the option to restore deleted mails. It certainly isn't a solution and probably is for testing during development. 99% of the people that get bitten certainly are not going to be able to manually install a nightly build to recover mail. I agree with you, thunderbird should include a function in the folder context menu that allows you to recover deleted mail. The context menu has a "compact folder" option, the "recover deleted mail" option makes sense as well. Oh well. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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How do I tell tbird to reindex all the messages and give me the full folder back?? It seems like a simple reindex should do, but no dice. Anybody have any experience/suggestions on this one?
note: I do not use tbird or kmail, but mutt (mbox). First copy your mail directory to another location for _backup. Then rm the index files. Then start tbird and try to access your local mail. tbird should automagically rebuild your indexes. This is how kmail worx, iianm. -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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