Re: fixing email dates

2009-04-30 Thread David J. Weller-Fahy
* Rocco Rutte [2009-04-28 05:02 -0500]: > It would be nice if you could keep an eye on database file sizes. If > the db libraries don't reuse freed space (either by deleted or updated > entries), then we get a growing db file. I'm running HEAD with your patch, and am running the following command

Re: fixing email dates

2009-04-28 Thread Rocco Rutte
Hi, * David J. Weller-Fahy wrote: > I have been using it, IMAP only as well, since the 18th of April, and > have had no problems. I've got the Go to include it the mainline, thanks to everybody for testing. It would be nice if you could keep an eye on database file sizes. If the db libraries do

Re: fixing email dates

2009-04-25 Thread David J. Weller-Fahy
* Kyle Wheeler [2009-04-23 12:01 -0500]: > > I'm using it since a few days (no imap, only local Maildir), no > > problem so far. > > I've been using it for a few days now too, with IMAP only, and it > seems to work fine for me. I have been using it, IMAP only as well, since the 18th of April, and

Re: fixing email dates

2009-04-23 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, April 23 at 01:42 PM, quoth Christian Ebert: >> I have no feedback from others about it whether it works. Given the >> current design of hcache, the patch does some dangerous things >> (i.e. it might crash mutt, return wrong information,

Re: fixing email dates

2009-04-23 Thread Christian Ebert
* Rocco Rutte on Sunday, April 19, 2009 at 16:07:28 +0200 > * Kyle Wheeler wrote: >> On Sunday, April 19 at 02:26 PM, quoth Rocco Rutte: >>> The problem with hcache is (currently, without the patch attached to >>> ticket #2942) that it's written only once when initially parsing the >>> message. T

Re: fixing email dates

2009-04-19 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday, April 19 at 04:07 PM, quoth Rocco Rutte: > * Kyle Wheeler wrote: >> On Sunday, April 19 at 02:26 PM, quoth Rocco Rutte: >>> The problem with hcache is (currently, without the patch attached to >>> ticket #2942) that it's written only once w

Re: fixing email dates

2009-04-19 Thread Rocco Rutte
Hi, * Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Sunday, April 19 at 02:26 PM, quoth Rocco Rutte: > > The problem with hcache is (currently, without the patch attached to > > ticket #2942) that it's written only once when initially parsing the > > message. Thus, if the date is Epoch upon first parse, it'll be tha

Re: fixing email dates

2009-04-19 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday, April 19 at 02:26 PM, quoth Rocco Rutte: > The problem with hcache is (currently, without the patch attached to > ticket #2942) that it's written only once when initially parsing the > message. Thus, if the date is Epoch upon first parse,

Re: fixing email dates

2009-04-19 Thread Rocco Rutte
Hi, * Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Saturday, April 18 at 02:12 PM, quoth Paul E Condon: > > How do I empty the header cache and force a reload from disk? > Essentially, by deleting it and relaunching mutt. > > Preferably without exiting Mutt, so that I can check my work as > > I go. I doubt it's

Re: fixing email dates

2009-04-19 Thread Rocco Rutte
Hi, * Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Saturday, April 18 at 10:43 AM, quoth Paul E Condon: > > but that doesn't seem to work, for me. I still get the Unix Epoch in > > the index display. I have editted in both Date: and Delivery-date: > > headers. I can see them when I open an email and visually read

Re: fixing email dates

2009-04-18 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday, April 18 at 02:12 PM, quoth Paul E Condon: >> Nope. But mutt can cache the date header (if you told it to). > > OK, header cache is the mysterious something that was stopping me. Hardly mysterious... header caching isn't turned on by defa

Re: fixing email dates

2009-04-18 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-04-18_13:33:09, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Saturday, April 18 at 10:43 AM, quoth Paul E Condon: > > I had thought that I could edit into the email a Date: header with > > the correct date, > > Yup, that's the way to do it. > > Let me guess: you edited the message outside of mutt, and you u

Re: fixing email dates

2009-04-18 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday, April 18 at 10:43 AM, quoth Paul E Condon: > I had thought that I could edit into the email a Date: header with > the correct date, Yup, that's the way to do it. Let me guess: you edited the message outside of mutt, and you use header

fixing email dates

2009-04-18 Thread Paul E Condon
I have a number of malformed emails that I want to save in an archive. Before I archive them I want to make the dates right. Now they appear in Mutt with the date: 1970-01-01 00:00:00. I know what this date is, and from other records, I can assign a more honest date to each of them. I had though