How to undo a mass delete filter in Thunderbird

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I was messing around with the (disappointingly weak) Filter function in Thunderbird, when I accidentally deleted all messages older than 2 days. I had the "filter log" turned on, so there is a record of every email that was deleted, but is there an easy way to undelete them?

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