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Corrupted Maildir. How can I push Thunderbird emails back to the server?

  • Posted February 9, 2015

I’m transitioning from a VPS to DigitalOcean after my machine suffered a catastrophic failure due to a loss of power, resulting in a completely corrupted Maildir folder. Now, I’ve got two accounts in Thunderbird:

  • Account 1, with everything still stored on my local machine.
  • Account 2, with new email coming in.

Now, when I connect back to the corrupted host, because it’s running on IMAP, it dumps all of the local data in Thunderbird (good thing for local backups.)

When I move to DigitalOcean this week (I’m installing software to the droplet now!) I’d like to setup a new mailserver and a smooth transition, and as I’m doing it, it would be really nice if I could combine these accounts and retain the folders, and consistent email history that I’ve lost.

I’ll be using this guide:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-setup-exim-spamassassin-clamd-and-dovecot-on-an-arch-linux-vps

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thank you.

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Doug C • February 9, 2015

Seems used a round about way of getting mail from my gmail account into my droplet.

Since your Account 1 is already local I would try to find a way to back it up locally.

Once your droplet is created create a NEW account in thunderbird (account 3). Then if I remember correctly I just drag and dropped folders from my Google account folders (Your account 1) to my droplets account folders. (your account 3).

Follow a similar pattern to get your account 2 moved over.

You might be able to find a more automated way of doing this but I only had 4 physical email boxes to deal with so it didn’t take long.