Greetings, while reordering some backups, I found a tar file containing a "maildir-like" mailbox. By this I mean that it was a folder with 3 subfolders with the right names:
old_email/cur old_email/new old_email/tmp and thousands of files in it (almost all in /cur). I opened it with Mutt (Mutt 1.5.21 (2010-09-15) on Fedora x86_64, in case it matters) and indeed saw some 15K messages. So I canceled the ones I didn't need, moved all the others to the proper mailboxes of my email archive until nothing was left. As far as I remember, Mutt never complained in any phase of the process. The point is that now the mailbox shows as empty in Mutt, but a find old_email -type f returns several hundreds of files, all valid email messages if the few ones I have looked into with "less" are representative. Right now I have no other MUAs on this box, as Mutt does everything I need :-), but I may install them of course if there is nothing else to try. I am looking for help and pointers on what to do next. What baffles me is that the "mailbox" was OK for Mutt, I moved around thousands of messages without problems. Why some of them don't show, and how could I "restore" them? Thanks in advance for any suggestion! Marco
