Subj : Personal emails deleted
To   : Digital Man
From : Nightfox
Date : Tue Jan 11 2022 09:36:57

  Re: Personal emails deleted
  By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Thu Apr 15 2021 09:22 am

 > > DM>> Old e-mail will be deleted if you have SCFG->Message
 > > DM>> Options->Purge E-mail by Age set to Enabled.

 > >> I have that option disabled.  I'm not sure why most of my old emails
 > >> were deleted.

 >> You should have auto-backups of your mail base saved as data/mail.#.*.
 >> Using smbutil to examine the back-up before the deletion (e.g.
 >> "smbutil v mail.0.shd") may help to illuminate why.

 DM> Also use "smbutil s" to confirm the max_age value is set to 0 on that mail
 DM> base.

It's been a while since I posted about this, but I was coming back around to this and just tried using "smbutil v" and "smbutil s".  I've confirmed the max_age value is set to 0 on my mail.shd.  Also, I do have backups of my mail, and when using "smbutil v", I see there is a lot of mail there, going back to 2011.  For deleted messages, I'm curious what exactly I'd be looking for when using "smbutil v"?

Also, is there a way to use smbutil to search for text within the messages and display the matching messages?  Or can smbutil dump all messages in a messagebase?  I'm wondering if there's a way to at least save all messages to a text file which I can search through using a text editor or other utility.

Nightfox

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