On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 23:08 -0500, M. Lewis wrote: > FedoraCore4 > T'bird version 1.0.6-1.1.fc4 (20050720) > > I've read numerous other postings about mail disappearing. I've searched > the FAQ as well as the forum at the Thunderbird help. I've tried all the > steps outlined in the 'mail disappearing' topic on the T'bird forum. > Still I have no Inbox. > > The scenario: > > Today I needed to reboot my machine to install a new kernel. T'bird was > working fine. I had about 70 or so emails in my inbox. Last night I was > working on cleaning the inbox up and moving messages out of there. > > Rebooted machine. Brought up T'bird. Went to the inbox folder and it was > empty. Shutdown T'bird, started it again. Inbox is still empty. > > If I go to my profile/ImapMail/ I cannot find any files or directories > called Inbox. It apparently somehow magically was completely deleted. > > I've sent messages to myself from other accounts. I can not receive mail > now. I suspect the reason is the inbox is gone. > > If I click on another folder in T'bird (other than Inbox) then click on > Inbox again, I see in the bottom left of the screen "Opening Folder..." > but of course nothing happens. > > I'm very suspicious of some issue with IMAP, though Dovecot seems to be > running fine. I set T'bird to check mail every 1 minute. If I do 'tail > -f /var/log/maillog | grep imap' I DO NOT see T'bird logging in every > minute. I see it only when I start T'bird. > > If I send new message to myself, I can see it in /var/spool/mailboxname. > > 1) Any clues as to why this happened? > 2) Any clues how to recover the messages that were in the Inbox? > 3) Any clues how to prevent this from happening again? I suspect the > answer to this is have very small Inbox. As I stated earlier, I was > working on that last night. Guess I didn't get to it quickly enough. > > I posted this on the Thunderbird help forum and I did get some answers > from one fellow. Unfortunately, he was a M$ user and just gave me the > standard spiel about things I had already tried. > > Thanks for any ideas about how to proceed. ----- most of the time people ask this question, they have 'filtering' turned on which hides the mail in their inbox until they clear it. I can't give the steps since I don't use Thunderbird but would guess that it involves a 'search' or 'filter' Craig
