[Kde-pim] Finding mail on a botched system

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Monday 30 March 2009, Anne Wilson wrote:
> I have a user that had 'help' to get his mail transferred to his new
> system. The result is a horrible mess of apparent folders at top
> level, and his mail can't be found.  If we can identify where the
> mail actually ended up I can help him get this sorted.  Can you think
> of any possible search that would help us find it?
>
> As far as I can see, messages are numbered, rather than named, so
> searching on the name doesn't look possible.  I did wonder if it is
> possible to search for maildir type of files?

If the (mail) folders are in maildir format then search for (filesystem) 
folders named "cur". But you can also search for "drafts", "inbox",
"outbox", "sent-mail", "templates", "trash" or any other names of the 
(mail) folders.


Regards,
Ingo
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