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A terrible thing happened to me. I used my e-mail account for ages and I accessed it through Mozilla Thunderbird. Then I had to reinstall my computer. I installed Thunderbird again and I added my e-mail account as a new account again.
Thunderbird downloaded all e-mails from the mailserver and then deleted all of them, which were older than 14 days. The e-mails are gone - I checked it through the web API, too.
What happened?! Is there anything I can do to restore my e-mails (it is a real tragedy for me)? I might have made a mistake during configuration, but how could such a thing happen without a huge red warning? Please, help.
3If all else fails, you can try pulling the old Thunderbird profile out of your backed up data from before the reinstall. You did back it up, right? (The profile sits in
%AppData%
.) – Bob – 2015-06-29T06:54:04.2731@Bob Yes, thank you so much! I restored the Profiles directory, then changed the profiles.ini and I can see all my e-mails now. You really saved my day! Is there any way to upload them back to the mailserver? – vojta – 2015-06-29T07:04:10.560
If you drag them into local folders and back to the mailbox, assuming it's IMAP, that should force an upload. I'm not sure if you'll end up losing a bit of server-side info, though. Probably not. – Bob – 2015-06-29T07:17:18.023
What about the Trash folder, sometimes they end up there. Take a look at web interface – emirjonb – 2015-06-29T09:29:43.103
@emirjonb Trash folder is empty... – vojta – 2015-06-29T10:05:45.260