Re: [Courier-imap] NO Unable to open this mailbox.

[E.S. R. <es-...@ro...>]

On 24.2.2025 14:09, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> E.S. Rosenberg via Courier-imap writes:
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>> On 24.2.2025 13:53, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>>> E.S. Rosenberg via Courier-imap writes:
>>>
>>>> My Maildirs were missing a tmp folder so Courier could not create 
>>>> lock files, sadly it would seem that all the metadata of which 
>>>> messages were read and which replies belong to what was lost in the 
>>>> data recovery :(
>>>
>>> Presuming that a missing tmp folder was the only issue, this issue 
>>> would have no effect on the read/unread status of each message, and 
>>> what was in reply to what. All of that metadata is tracked elsewhere.
>> Can you tell me what such a file would look like, maybe it is 
>> somewhere in the raw data of the data recovery?
> 
> Message status is tracked simply by renaming each message file. There's 
> a naming convention for the actual filename of each individual message.
> 
> -rw-------   1 mrsam mrsam  59604 Sep 14  2020 
> '1600115106.M531910P58316V0000000000000903I0000000000288D27_0.monster.email-scan.com,S=59604:2,S'
> 
> The ":2,S" part marks this message as seen.
> 
> -rw-------   1 mrsam mrsam   5393 Dec  9  2019 
> '1575907505.M563625P49865V0000000000000903I0000000000288F25_0.monster.email-scan.com,S=5393:2,RS'
> 
> This one was read, and replied to. A message is marked as read, replied, 
> or unread, simply by renaming it.
Very strange, my file names are like this and yet all messages are shown 
as new/unread by Thunderbird.

Examples:
1258909356.M230695P10452V000000000000FE03I00002099_584.Epia5000,S=4830$2,S
1619633950.Vfd02I445ebM297063.server-ma:2,

> 
> As far as what was in reply to what else that's tracked in the message's 
> headers, specifically each message's In-Reply-To and References headers.
> 
> 
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