Re: Personal emails deleted
By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Tue Jan 11 2022 12:50 pm
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.
If you've ever used a POP3 or IMAP mail client to read your BBS mail, it very easily could have deleted the messages.
I had set up Mozilla Thunderbird on my main PC to get mail from my BBS, and though I rarely use Thunderbird, I suppose it's possible I ran Thunderbird at some point and it perhaps deleted the emails.
going back to 2011. For deleted messages, I'm curious what exactly
I'd be looking for when using "smbutil v"?
An "attr" value that includes the DELETE flag, e.g.
attr 0012h (READ, DELETE)
I see, thanks.
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?
'smbutil r -1000 /sbbs/data/mail' would dump (up to) 1000 message from the mail base (you can specify whatever number you like for the number of messages). You could then search the output stream (e.g. pipe through 'grep' or redirect to a file to be searched using a text viewer/editor).
Ah, thanks. I was using smbutil a bit and saw the r option, but it was interactive. With the -1000 option, it dumps out all those messages - Just waht I was looking for.
Nightfox
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