[Dovecot] most of INBOX missing?

[Mark Adams]

Have you tried mutt with the -f switch on the Maildir as root (or the
mail user)?. If this works you could tag all items then save them to an
mbox which you could import into thunderbird.

Regards,
Mark

On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 11:20:24PM -0700, William Lott wrote:
> Greetings.
> 
> I'm having an issue with dovecot that I'm hoping that someone can help 
> me with.  Most of the mail in my INBOX has mysteriously disappeared and 
> I'd like to get it back.  It's all in the ~/Maildir/cur directory and 
> dovecot reports that 1048 messages exist when given the SELECT imap 
> command.  But Thunderbird and the SEARCH imap command only list 25 messages:
> 
>    [wlott at rootbeer ~]$ ls Maildir/cur | wc -l
>    1048
>    [wlott at rootbeer ~]$ MAIL=maildir:~/Maildir /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap
>    * PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND 
> UNSELECT IDLE CHILDREN LISTEXT LIST-SUBSCRIBED NAMESPACE] Logged in as wlott
>    x SELECT INBOX
>    * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft NonJunk $MDNSent 
> $Label1 $Forwarded Junk)
>    * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft 
> NonJunk $MDNSent $Label1 $Forwarded Junk \*)] Flags permitted.
>    * 1048 EXISTS
>    * 0 RECENT
>    * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1117080198] UIDs valid
>    * OK [UIDNEXT 1700] Predicted next UID
>    x OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed.
>    x SEARCH ALL
>    * SEARCH 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 
> 24 25 26
>    x OK Search completed.
>    [wlott at rootbeer ~]$
> 
> 
> I'm running dovecot version 0.99.14-8 under Fedora Core 4.  I saw on the 
> dovecot website that 0.99 isn't supported anymore, but I'm hoping that 
> someone can help me recover my lost email none the less.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -William
>