[Users] Recovering messages from somewhere in ~/.claws-mail.

[Dustin Miller]

On Mon, 20 Dec 2021 14:50:51 +1300
Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:

> Recently I somehow managed to lose (inadvertently delete?) a message.
> However, I have a backup of my user files on an external hard drive,
> and in that backup the directory ~/.claws-mail is present.
> 
DM: Hi, Rolf. I can help you move a step forward on this, I think. In
order for someone to attempt to answer your question, they will need to
know whether you are talking about a POP account or an IMAP account,
since my understanding is that the default locations for these are
different. It would also be helpful to know whether you are using the
default location for your messages or whether you have specified your
own desired location. Knowing these things will help confirm that
you're looking in the right place. Cheers, ---Dustin
> 
> I'm hoping that the lost message might exist somewhere in the
> tree structure of .../BACKUP/.../.claws-mail, and that I might thereby
> be able to recover it.
> 
> However the location of messages is opaque to me. Can anyone explain
> to me how I might undertake the recovery?  If so, could they *please*
> express themselves in very simple and explicit terms.  I.e. give me
> an explicit recipe.  Please don't make reference to concepts or use
> jargon that you assume that I will understand --- I probably won't.
> (I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me! :-) )
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Rolf Turner
> 
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