Patrick Shanahan said the following on 01/27/2012 10:13 AM:
* Anton Aylward <opensuse@antonaylward.com> [01-27-12 09:19]:
I had a power-out crash (don't ask) and when the machine came back up after plugging the power cord in again and locking the cat out I find Thunderbird misbehaving.
try opening the mail with mutt, easy install and not a lot of dependencies.
That makes no sense to me.
if mail appears *normal*, we can go further and export to a new location and you can import back into tb
is tb using mbox?
No, it using IMAP. The mail is stored on the mail-hub machine which did not suffer the cat-astrophe. Patrick, there is no problem with the mail, reading the mail. It is the local-to-tbird stuff like the accumulator and the history of move/copy that has become sc-err-mucked up. The mail is in that. I can still read the mail, send mail. Its the added functionality" of tbird that took the hit. Somewhere, tbird maintains its own index and counters and memory of what tbird has done (such as "move to again"). Yes maintaining the index when Dovecot already has an index of the headers (and the body since it does full text indexing with Plucine) is wasteful (but the same can be said about KMail and duplicating the index with nepomuk). But that's all beside the point and not at issue here. The problem I'm faced with is local to Thunderbird and nothing to do with mail store. I see, as I access each folder with tbird, that it re-indexes, get a new count of the unread. Fine, but the history for "move to recent" is still absent and it still thinks every file id a draft. I see under ~/.thunderbird the file 'virtualFolders.dat'. Does the status flags there have anything to do with 'draft'? -- "On two occasions I have been asked (by members of Parliament!), 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. - Charles Babbage 1791-1871) English computer pioneer, philosopher -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org