8 Dec
2019
8 Dec
'19
2:05 a.m.
On Saturday 07 December 2019 16:16:30 Gene Heskett wrote:
On Saturday 07 December 2019 18:11:26 E. Liddell
wrote:
Myself, I would archive the "really" old stuff (everything older than some
arbitrary date). Put it somewhere safe, like on a separate drive, or at least
in a separate folder, so that Kmail doesn't get into it.
Best guess is that it is just the size of your archive that is causing the
problems. How often do you actually search back into your archives for an
email older than, say, 6 months or a year past?
If you need to search the archives, deal with that problem as the need arises,
rather than fighting this same losing battle, over and over, for little or no
useful purpose.
By the way, I have used Claws and Sylpheed just a little. (I believe Sylpheed
was forked from Claws, or the other way around.) I was interested in getting
a cross-platform email client, so that I could use a portable app on a flash
drive, if I am ever out and about. They work okay, but they lack the
functionality of Kmail.
Bill
On Sat, 7 Dec 2019 12:02:31 -0500
Gene Heskett <gheskett(a)shentel.net> wrote:
I'm forced to agree. But if I have to do that, its likely I'll just jump
ship to claws or even (spit) t-bird. This has been bugging me off and
on for at least 5 years, and I've been mostly ignored, sent hundreds of
crash reports all to no avail as far as solving the problem is
concerned. Paypal has no clue who Tim is, so I've not been able to
contribute, which bothers the hell outta me as a firm believer in
TANSTAAFL. Not having paid my dues, I don't feel like I can demand.
Wrong list, but can claws handle a 20+ gig corpus of email stretching
back 20 years?
On Saturday 07 December 2019 10:05:31 Michael
wrote:
From the look of it, it's intentionally difficult to modify on
command. Calling chown on the file will set the ctime to the current
time (even if the file's ownership isn't actually changed), so you can
diddle the system time then do that. Most of the other methods seem
to involve debugfs, virtual machines, and other exotica.
You know, if you don't need access to all of your old email
constantly, you could just turn your mail directory into a symlink,
split the last year or two of mail off into a separate directory from
the older stuff and point the symlink there, and redirect the symlink
if you need the older mail. Or split the older mail off into a
separate user account. Because it really seems like you're going to a
lot of trouble for very little return here. “touch” will let you change Access and Modify
datetimes.
Humm, but I want to modify the creation times, to make that equal
arrival time from the date/time of arrival from $servername in the
header. Even the pinfo version can only diddle access (atime) and
modify time (mtime) but no mention of ctime is made. That sounds
like I am screwed. Do we have anything which can diddle the ctime's? E. Liddell
Thanks, E. Lidell