On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 05:36:03PM +0200, M. Fioretti wrote: > 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
[...] > 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. in which directory? only cur and new are read by any maildir agent, tmp is only for incoming mail. If it's in tmp it's probably good to clear, because either the mail wasn't properly delivered due to some issue and were most likely re-delivered by whatever was attempting to put them there or the process which relinks the file from tmp to new didn't work properly, in which case those files are just duplicates of emails which were in cur or new. If they *are* all in tmp, and you want to look at them, simply mv them to cur or new and inspect them yourself through mutt or your maildir reader of choice. -Jeremy
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