On 08/01/2012 09:30 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
Thanks Lew,
Yes, I've been on the imap server in my home ~/Mail account grepping through the files. That is how I discovered the dates of the last/first messages in 'archive' and 'inbox'. The curiosity is I have set:
[x] Keep messages archives in: o "Archives" Folder on Rankin Law Firm Archive options... When archiving messages, place them in: o Yearly archived folders [x] Keep existing folder structure of archived messages ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
In the preview in the settings window, that shows files listed by year in the archive, i.e.:
Archive \-2010 \-2011
In the past there were folders shown under the archive folder in that fashion. Now in tbird, the year subfolders are completely missing! So there is a ui bug there in tbird. Here is a screenshot of the folder showing no folders:
http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/bugs/moz/email-missing.jpg
In other thoughts - let me know and I'll work though them on my end. It looks like archive handling was 'updated' sometime in the version race from 3->14 and it looks like it might lead to data loss.
Hi David, I don't know what to make of it. I maintain my archive folders manually and never keep them on the local machine since I read from multiple locations. But! A couple of weeks ago someone I know lost a block of mail using Thunderbird. She was storing messages in a local folder from a large remote imap server when something went wrong. She was left with a local folder containing many identical message headers with empty message bodies. The mail had been deleted on the imap server and the mail was lost locally somehow. She never did find it. We don't have shell access to the server in this case. I'll talk with her tomorrow to see if I can nail down more closely exactly what she did and what happened. It would be great if we could set up a test account to see if this is repeatable. Regards, Lew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org