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[LUG]Re: Thunderbird deleted folder missing

 

The emails wherever they are should be stored as “flat text” / ASCII text.
So if you know phrases or unusual words in the email, recipient’s email addresses, 
etc., you could search for them with “grep” - the standard unix-toolkit 
pattern-matcher.
As you don’t know where to look, you might fire it up through “find” with something 
like

find . -type f -exec grep ‘contraoscillating’ {} \;



> On 21 Mar 2023, at 13:05, Neil <barnaby@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> My wife uses thunderbird for her emails. She seems to have lost any trace of an 
> email she sent recently.It is not showing in the sent folder. I have also noted 
> that she has a trash folder but no deleted folder. I am wondering what happens to 
> any emails that she deletes.
> 
> Any suggestions please? Before I get into trouble for messing up her system,
> 
> Neil
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