Evolution: my sent folder just disappeared.

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 15:41 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 22:34 +0000, g wrote:
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> > 
> > linuxguy wrote:
> > <snip>
> > > I will do this when I get my Sent folder back.   Right now it isn't
> > > present in EV to do this.
> > 
> > if you are adventurous, you can try what i did a few years back with ev.
> > 
> > with a file browser, locate your 'sent' folder, open with a text editor.
> > then manually save to a new file, 'sent00'.
> > 
> > open 'sent00', page down about half way into it, back up to start of a
> > message. then delete messages to end, save as a new file name, 'sent01'.
> > 
> > reopen 'sent00', page down to message you started of message you started
> > you delete from, delete back to start of file, save as 'sent02'.
> > 
> > rename original 'sent' file to 'sent.org', open a terminal, or command shell,
> > touch 'sent' to create a new 'sent'.
> > 
> > look at associated files of 'sent', create them for 'sent01' and 'sent02'.
> > 
> > reopen ev and you should now have an empty 'sent' plus a new 'sent01' and
> > 'sent02'.
> > 
> > there may be an easier way, but this did work for me.
> ----
> I found that emacs gagged on 2Gb files and had to use vi for files of
> this size but it was painful.
> 
> You can use the 'split' command (man split for details).
> 
> you could conceivably split the file into 8 pieces and thus only lose 8
> e-mails.

I'm pretty sure formail (part of the procmail package) can do this
safely.

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