I suspect that the root of my problem may be that, over the years, I have quite likely dragged effectively the same ever-growing profile from Thunderbird to Fossamail back to Thunderbird to Interlink to Epyrus - and probably a few other clients along the way.
I think I switched to Epyrus in late July, basically by copying over my Interlink profile. It wasn't until fairly recently that I noticed that the weekly archiving of my emails, using MSH, wasn't picking up any newer messages. I tried various MSH profiles: anything pointing to the current Epyrus profile just didn't work, while anything pointing to a clean new Epyrus profile did work (found the new emails).
A few days ago, a possible answer was posted in the MSH Community forum, at the bottom of this thread: https://community.mailstore.com/en/t/msh-no-longer-archives-new-emails-msh-portable-and-thunderbird-portable/2545
It suggests that the problem lies in the prefs.js in the current (in my case, Epyrus) profile, because MSH reads the prefs.js, which is actually pointing to mail directories that may no longer be in use. This information is in the prefs.js under the user_prefs
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mail.server.serverX.directory
For example, mail.server.server7.directory points to
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D:\\Users\\[UserName]\\AppData\\Roaming\\BinaryOutcast\\Interlink\\Profiles\\[Profile].default\\Mail\\[email address]
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D:\\Users\\[UserName]\\AppData\\Roaming\\Thunderbird\\Profiles\\[Profile].Default\\Mail\\[email address]
In the hope that there are someones who are more adept at this than I am, I have two questions: first, could I do worse than by trying to edit manually the current prefs.js, when Epyrus isn't running, to point to the "proper" directories? Having done a backup first, of course.
Second, while I would probably be better off to start completely afresh with a clean profile and import all my messages, RSS feeds and add-ons, my attempts in this direction so far have been unsuccessful, to say the least. If anyone knows of a guide to doing this, could you please point me to it?
I do have other weekly backups of my current Epyrus profile.
Any advice will be greatly appreciated. I'm more than slightly frustrated and annoyed by all this, especially by my inability to solve it.
Thank you