reconstruct

[Daniel Eckl]

Steve Huston wrote:
> On 9/21/06 5:04 AM, Daniel Eckl wrote:
>> Hmmm yes, I want to second that. I have often restored accidentally
>> deleted mail folders from tape, copied them back into the mailbox
>> structure and reconstructed the folder. I never had any issue with that...
> 
[...]
> And since I can't tell from the filenames what a certain email contains,
> the end user can go through the new folder of however-many-hundred-mails
> to pick out the few they want, move them to where they want them, then
> delete the rest of the folder at their leisure.

Yes, that's my preferred way also. Just restore a complete folder, name
it e.g. "RESTORED" or similar, put it in the mailbox root and make a
reconstruct online. Then th euser can decide what to do with it.

I think as well that this should be safe. Sounds very logically.

Best,
Daniel