[Imap-uw] mix reconstructor?

Mark Crispin markrcrispin at panda.com
Thu Apr 2 15:36:04 PDT 2009


On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Joe Pruett wrote:

> sorry, by recover, i meant recover from tape. but i didn't want to just

> recover on top of the inbox. i'm trying the theory of recovering to a new

> folder and then copying via imap rather than try to do any rebuild magic. but

> i'll look at the mixrbld and mixdfix stuff...


I think that recovering to a new folder, and then letting the user decide
what to do with it, is best. There is some black magic possible, but it's
best left to sorcerers who can talk with the user and determine if
invoking demons is safe... ;-)

-- Mark --

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