On 12/18/2010 11:16 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > On 12/17/2010 02:40 PM, Konstantin Svist wrote: >> ..right in front of my eyes, as my fingers were resting on the keyboard! >> >> I selected several messages in my Inbox, planning to move them to >> another folder... my fingers were resting on ctrl/alt/shift area (left) >> and arrow keys (right). Suddenly the selected messages disappeared as if >> I pressed Shift+Delete >> >> I've already checked Archives and searched entire Local Folders -- those >> messages are gone >> >> >> What the hell could've happened? >> > A couple of things. First, is your inbox IMAP or POP3, or do you have a > SPAM filter set, or other automatic filters, or possibly your index is > corrupt. Your inbox is composed of two file, Inbox and Inbox.msf. The > Inbox is the place where the email is stored. When you receive an email, > that email is added to the end of Inbox. When you delete an email, the > email is just marked as delete, it is not physically removed until you > compact the file. The Inbox.msf is an index, and this is where you see > the files in Thunderbird. You can physically delete the msf file, but I > would do this when thunderbird is not running. The restart Thunderbird. > If you have not compacted in a while it might be useful to do this. WRT: > IMAP/POP3. With POP3, when you retrieve your email from the server it is > physically downloaded to your system and deleted from the server, but > with IMAP, your email will remain on the server until you either delete > it or move it to another folder. > Thanks Jerry I've already recovered the mails using Thunderbird-Reset-Status [1] and installed ConfirmBeforeDelete addon [2] to lessen the chances of it happening again.. although I still have a suspicion that it might, since I know I didn't press Shift+Del [1] http://nic-nac-project.de/~kaosmos/misc/index.html [2] https://nic-nac-project.org/~kaosmos/index-en.html -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
