On 6/12/2008, Daniel L. Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Well, I have a brain-dead user (using Thunderbird 2.0.0.14) who
just won't listen when I tell them not to try to move 5000+
messages at one time (or if deleting, bypass the Trash), and they
managed to royally screw up their maildirs...
It's never bothered me - though I'm typically on a local IMAP
connection. Is yours different?
TBird will sometimes barf if you try to move thousands of messages, then
*immediately* after the drag/drop, start doing other things with your
email (checking new messages, deleting messages, etc), without giving it
5 or 10 seconds to finish what it is doing.
It is *much* worse about barfing with Courier than with dovecot
though... hmmm... and I just realized, this user is still on Courier (we
are slowly migrating all of them over - almost done, but not quite)...
crap... so it wasn't dovecots fault, most likely...
The only way to determine if the messages are the same would be to do
a full-text comparison, per message. Not fun. Tell the user they get
> to enjoy processing their mail by hand - an object lesson in why they
> should listen to their sysadmin.
Heh... she's been working on it for about half an hour... I just thought
I'd see if I could save her some trouble. But no, I don't feel bad about it.
And the folder that ended up with 5 copies... had 27,000 messages in it,
when it should have about 5,000.
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Best regards,
Charles
