On 08/01/2012 12:19 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
Guys,
This is potentially critical and I hope it is just because I am doing something wrong in tbird 14. The server is postifx, the mta is dovecot, the mailbox is imap.
I was searching for some critical emails from March and April 2011. Checking my inbox, there are no messages prior to 5/31/2011. WTF? So I then looked in the "archive" folder expecting to find them - nothing. There is nothing in "archive" since 12/12/2010. There is another folder called "Archive", but it has nothing in it.
Checking the Settings -> Copies & Folders under Message Archives, I have the following:
[x] Keep messages archives in: o "Archives" Folder on Rankin Law Firm Archive options... When archiving messages, place them in: o Yearly archived folders [x] Keep existing folder structure of archived messages
Checking the actual mail files on the server in ~/Mail, I have an "archive" showing the date of "May 18 2011 archive". However, when I look at the archive in tbird there is nothing shown from 12/12/10 on and nothing in my inbox before 5/31/11. So where is all the mail from 12/12/10-5/31/11?
I cannot express the enormity and implications of a potential loss like this. Apparently the mail is still in the "archive" file, but not displayed in the "archive" folder of tbird?
How do I get the mail back?
Is there any way a hostname change could have caused tbird to lose messages when attempting to move to an archive? Also, I access this sever from several different computers. Looking at the thunderbird server settings, they are different. One install was configured to archive in 'archive' another was configured to archive in 'Archive'. Since this is imap, what would the server do when confronted with this difference? If it doesn't gracefully handle this somehow, then that is a huge data integrity bug. Also, I've never messed with the archive location, was there a tbird default change from 'Archive' to 'archive' at some point? I'll check, but if anybody knows, feel free to chime in. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org