Comments on: Thunderbird Has Lost my eMail in Ubuntu!

By: UbuntuLinuxHelp

UbuntuLinuxHelp — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:02:54 +0000

@nesh – You have to backup the thunderbird profile BEFORE doing anything else (including running any software that might delete your inbox). In Ubuntu Linux, the backup is secured by:

Copying this directory to some backup location: …/home/ /.mozilla-thunderbird

If software such as ClamAV delete your inbox before the backup, I don’t think there is much one can do.

Just a side note – You don’t necessarily need to run AV software on Linux. See here: http://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/doe.....-software/ and especially read the comments from “yochai”.

By: nesh

nesh — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:07:42 +0000

I am using thunderbird on Ubuntu 8.04 and ClamAV (my anti-virus) detected my inbox as a threat and deleted it. Is there any way to restore it?

I tried the stuff mentioned above but it only brought back my arhieved mails.

By: UbuntuLinuxHelp

UbuntuLinuxHelp — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:16:03 +0000

@philippulus – Sorry, I’m not too sure how that will work on Windows (this is a Linux blog). But I will try to see if I can find anything out about this for you. If so, you’ll see the response in these comments. Thanks!

By: philippulus

philippulus — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:28:52 +0000

I just had “copy” error messages under Vista and after reading on internet that the folders need to be compacted, I compacted my inbox.

After that, all red messages have definitely disappeared. Only latest, unred messages were downloaded at the end of the compacting step.

Deleting the msf index files or reconstructing index option did not help making the disappeared message to appear again.

To me, compacting does not mean purging. What is wrong with that?

Thanks a lot,
Nicolas

By: Arthur

Arthur — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:30:17 +0000

The same thing just happened to me, using Windows XP Pro.

All I did was access the folder listing, right clicked on the Inbox heading, then Properties. Then I clicked the Rebuild Index box.

The Inbox went totally blank, then the count of unread messages began increasing along with the messages, and in a few minutes all were restored.

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