[Users] Recover mail from a backup --- progress.

[Dustin Miller]

On Thu, 21 Apr 2022 13:42:15 +1200
Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:

> I found a partial solution to my problem:
> 
> * quit claws-mail
> * move .claws-mail to (e.g.) Save.claws-mail (so that it
>   can be recovered later, when all the dust has settled)
> * copy the back-up .claws-mail to /home/rolf/.claws-mail
>   (I used cp -r; I believe rsync would be better/faster but
>    I'm unsure of/nervous about the syntax of rsync)
> * DISCONNECT from the internet!!!  This is vital, otherwise
>   the INBOX gets immediately updated and the message whose
>   recovery is desired goes away)
> * start claws-mail.
> 
> Bingo!  The deleted message is present in INBOX.
> 
> My problem now is, how do I save it in my claws-mail folders?
> I cannot do any copying or moving since I am not connected to the
> internet!  (Catch-22!)
> 
DM: This is what I would do (all within Claws Mail):

* 1. Create a non-IMAP mailbox.
* 2. Copy the email you want from the IMAP backup set to a folder in
  this non-IMAP mailbox.
* 3. Go back online with your working copy of your IMAP account.
* 4. Copy the email from the non-IMAP mailbox folder into the desired
  folder in your IMAP account. (This will automatically add it to the
  emails on your mail server as well.)

DM: Don't have time to give real detailed instructions, but hopefully
that will at least get you moving in the right direction. :) Cheers,
---Dustin
> 
> I tried "Save email as" and got a saved file.  But there seemed to be
> little that I could do with this file.  What I wanted to do was to
> reconnect to the internet and then somehow input this saved file into
> claws-mail.  If I right-click on the file (in my "Desktop") the first
> option displayed is "Open with claws-mail".  But when I click on that,
> nothing happens.
> 
> Can anyone give me any ideas?  Ta.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Rolf Turner
> 
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> Department of Statistics
> University of Auckland
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