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Deleted Draft Message (encrypted)

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I try to recover a draft that has been re-edited. Ofc this article was disappointing: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1395373

But here is why it should work - not?

- I re-edited a draft, discarded it's changes and lost the draft (unwillingly). - This occured whilst being offline in the PC-Client. - The (encrypted) draft was already synchronized by IMAP to another mobile device before this incident. - The other device does not support the encryption of the draft, hence can't edit or read it, but it's synchronized. - I sent from mobile device the desired (unreadable) draft to myself. - Now I have this mail in my inbox which can't be read. - The draft ofc is gone now on the mobile device and the PC-client.

Any chance I can get that content?

Ofc I already checked (offline) the local files for X-Mozilla-Status and X-Enigmail-Draft-Status. Also no compression yet.

For further reference, see also: https://superuser.com/questions/1704289/how-to-recover-old-emails-in-a-thunderbird-local-folder

Help highly appreciated.

Feedback: Completely misleading checking for discarding drafts when re-editing them - that's a real fail in developement.

I try to recover a draft that has been re-edited. Ofc this article was disappointing: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1395373 But here is why it should work - not? - I re-edited a draft, discarded it's changes and lost the draft (unwillingly). - This occured whilst being offline in the PC-Client. - The (encrypted) draft was already synchronized by IMAP to another mobile device before this incident. - The other device does not support the encryption of the draft, hence can't edit or read it, but it's synchronized. - I sent from mobile device the desired (unreadable) draft to myself. - Now I have this mail in my inbox which can't be read. - The draft ofc is gone now on the mobile device and the PC-client. Any chance I can get that content? Ofc I already checked (offline) the local files for X-Mozilla-Status and X-Enigmail-Draft-Status. Also no compression yet. For further reference, see also: https://superuser.com/questions/1704289/how-to-recover-old-emails-in-a-thunderbird-local-folder Help highly appreciated. Feedback: Completely misleading checking for discarding drafts when re-editing them - that's a real fail in developement.

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christ1
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- This occured whilst being offline in the PC-Client.

I don't think I can follow exactly what you did and why. In any case, to avoid problems in the future, do not edit a message offline which already exists on the server. The server will override your offline changes the next time you get online again. This is how IMAP works.

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Thank you for the reply, but no. Changes are saved as new drafts.

Any ideas, anyone?

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Verbose: I had no connectivity and spent time on re-editing a draft. The result was not satisfying so instead of saving a (new) draft, I discarded changes when prompted. Thus I lost the former draft unwillingly (see Feedback) on this device only.

Did this help follow what I did?

christ1
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I'd suggest you make yourself familiar with how the IMAP protocol works. As said before, do not attempt to edit messages which exist on the server while being offline. You can copy messages to your 'Local Folders' account though, and safely edit them while offline. You can then upload those messages to the server once online again.

ogk65403
ogk65403

Thank you for the reply, but the protocol is not relevant to the question.

I have an encrypted draft and an encrypted mail of this draft sent to myself. I'd like to read the contents.

Any ideas, anyone?

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vac62181
vac62181

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f76qlqsvqv
f76qlqsvqv

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