On 25.11.14 10:35, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote: > Stupid me. I set folder=/home/user/.mail in each account instead of the > folder of the account. Damn I am stupid.
You are very hard on yourself. We do not in English have a single word for the German "Vorführungseffekt" (demonstration effect), which normally describes a process which works fine when you test it, but crashes as soon as you demonstrate it to management (whether job or domestic), but can all vouch for the "send button effect", in which the answer to our question dawns in the seconds after posting. One trick is to describe what one has tried, and then everything one might consider trying. More often than not, the message is then never sent. But sometimes you do have to really hit send for inspiration to fire. That seems to be a law of nature. Erik -- The age of party democracy has passed. Although the parties themselves remain, they have become so disconnected from the wider society, and pursue a form of competition that is so lacking in meaning, that they no longer seem capable of sustaining democracy in its present form. - Peter Mair, in "Ruling the Void"
