On 6/6/24 05:11, Chris M via Alpine-info wrote:
On Thu, 6 Jun 2024, Bret Busby via Alpine-info wrote:
Messages do not necessarily "just disapeared into nowhere!" - they are
just hiding from you - unless you have a filter set to delete
messages, rather than moving them. If you do not have filters that
delete messages, then, you need to go looking for the missing
messages, like looking for chook nests, to find the eggs, when the
chooks run free.
It was weird because Alpine was showing 7 emails and Fastmail webmail
was only showing 5. I must of accidently "s" back to the inbox or
something and it caused a double copy of the email. I do keep my web
browser open and I check the Fastmail website after I "s" archives2024
just to make sure that the email really got copied to that folder. I am
just nervous using IMAP, like I said in that private email to you
yesterday, I've used POP3 all of these years and this is the first time
I've used IMAP in a longggg time.
I've always used POP because I keep EVERYTHING, I hardly ever delete an
email. I've had to have Alpine make me a trash bin called "trashed"
because when you hit "d" in Alpine, it doesn't move the email to the
fastmail trash can, it just perm deletes them.
Then I told fastmail's website to empty that "trashed" folder every 60
days.
I tried to set my account up as POP3, but I couldn't figure out how to
get ALPINE to connect, it just kept saying " UNEXPECTED ERROR POP SERVER
SAID +SERVER READY" or something to that effect.
Chris
One of the possibilities, is that you may have a circular set of filters.
I encountered this, some time ago, where a message would be directed
into one folder, by a filter, then, directed back to the originating
folder, by another filter.
Because, when a folder is opened, the filters that operate on that
folder, operate, before the user sees the messages in the folder, I was
getting messages that were downloaded, filtered into one folder, then,
when I opened that folder, they were filtered into another folder, and,
then, when I opened the second folder, they were filtered out of that
folder, back to the folder, from which they had been filtered into that
folder.
Circular filtering.
So, I was getting messages coming in, that I never saw (until I realised
the problem, and, fixed it (I though that I had fixed all of the
instantiations, but, I might not have, because I still get some messages
disappear, when they are downloaded) ). That is one of the reasons that
I use Tbird as a webmail application, and, if I see a message that I
think is so important that I want to be absolutely sure of not losing
it, I forward it to myself, so that a copy goes into the Sent messages
folder, which does not get filtered.
..
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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