[SLE] Where might IMAP mail have gone?
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- Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:31:38 -0400
SUSE 10.1
For many years, I used KMail directly to/from my ISP.
KMail would grab from POP3 server and keep locally.
Then I decided that I wanted to be able to access mail
from multiple boxes on my home LAN, so I tried
fetchmail > Postfix > [Maildir] Dovecot.
It took me a while, and for many weeks I had both
KMail and fetchmail configured to "keep" or leave
the mail on the ISP, so that it would remain available.
Finally, I seemed to have it working. I connected from
my iBook to the SUSE machine, saw many thousands of
messages - all in my Inbox - and began sorting them
into folders (matching the folder naming that I'd
been using with KMail) creating rules/filters,
and all that. Presumably all this was happening on
the IMAP (Dovecot) server.
So, I finally removed "keep" from the .fetchmailrc,
no doubt relieving a burden from my ISP. :-)
You know what comes next.
I closed down the iBook that evening and came back
the next day to finish sorting the thousands of
messages... and they weren't there. Mail (the name
of the OS X e-mail program )on the iBook connected
to Dovecot IMAP on the SUSE box and presented me
with... a few hundred messages in total, from today's
mail nothing previous.
There should have been thousands from the past
five or six weeks.
After pounding frantically through the Mail
interface and finding no hints, I went to the
SUSE box and opened KMail, configured it to use
a local IMAP account, and was presented with...
three messages that had come in since the last
ten minutes.
Again, I looked in both programs for some horrible
setting to "hide anything older than today or that
you might have seen before" or worse, "destroy/expunge
anything before today". Didn't see it.
So I looked through the fetchmail, Postfix and Dovecot
configs for similar. Didn't recognize any such.
So, does my mail still exist? Between ten and twenty
thousand messages from the past month?
I looked in what I thought were likely places
in my home directory, in my /Data directory,
in /var/spool, and anywhere that seemed to have a
mention in any of the mail config files. Nothing
newer than a month ago, from an experiment I tried
then. I can find old MBOX stuff from October of 2002,
and a clump of Maildir format messages from March and
another clump from May, and nothing else.
I'm not concerned about years previous to
2006, because I have CD backups, but what about
the recent month or three? Where might it still
live? Any particular log files I should look at?
Kevin (in a mail vacuum at home)
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