RE: Evolution Ate My Mail! :)

[Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc cu-portland edu>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mawarkus@t-online.de [mailto:mawarkus@t-online.de]
> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 4:21 PM
> To: gnome-list@gnome.org
> Subject: Evolution Ate My Mail! :)
> 
> Last time I tried out Evolution, it slurped up all of my inbox. I was
> a bit surprised -- since I think that a sensible mail client should be
> able to determine that I want to read and keep the mail inside of the
> inbox and not move it from there. Man, I've got procmail to move it,
> as soon as it's in the inbox, I want it to stay there!
> 
> Anyway, somewhere inside of ~/evolution I was able to find a
> salvageable mbox file. I copied it back to ~/Mail/inbox, and
> everything was OK again.
> 
> I just ran Evolution again. The same thing happened. I copied the mbox
> back again -- and this time it didn't work. The mbox is still in mbox
> format, but completely illegible for Mutt. And for some reason, all
> the mails are in there in *triplicate*.
> 
> Is there some easy and idiotproof way to unmangle Evolution's mbox
> files? After all, this thing is supposed to be compatible, so why
> these problems?

This be ALPHA CODE.  There are LOTS of disclaimers all over the place.  Hate
to be nasty, but if you didn't keep a backup, it's your own fault.  That
said, I think the best hope that you have of salvaging things is to edit the
mbox file by hand.  Once you have it fixed, MAKE A BACKUP OFTEN, and make
another backup each time you get ready to run Evolution.  That way when it
eats your mail again, it's easy to get back.  Later,
	Greg