[Users] mail went.... where?

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

rikona wrote:

>I tried that but it does not find anything. Is there a way to search
>all 100 or so folders and subfolders?

You could use the command line. If you open a terminal and change to
the Mail directory, you can run this command to recursively search
every file in the Mail directory and all its subdirectories for
Xfinity in its contents:

grep -r "Xfinity" *

I just ran it in my Mail directory to do a search for "Pink Roses"
and it turned this up:

inbox/5518:Live on YouTube: Ginger Cook - Pink Roses by Curran
Acrylic Painting Tutori=

That lets me know that the email file is in the inbox, its file name
is 5518, and it gives me a snippet of text letting me know what it
found. 

The file  name won't be useful inside of Claws Mail, but you'll know
which folder it's in. If the folder is huge and you're not sure which
message it is, you could open the file in in a text editor and get the
subject or any other information to use as a search in Claws Mail.

You might be able to move the file from one directory to another in a
file manager or on the command line, but I'm not sure if Claws would
recognize that you did that or would need to rescan the directories.
If anyone reading this knows, please jump in.

I grep a lot. It's my preferred way of finding things.

-- 
Little Girl

There is no spoon.