powermail-discuss Digest #2932 - Friday, January 2, 2009
Re: One other wish for PM6
by "Sean McBride" <[email protected]>
Re: Exported mail databases cannot be imported
by "PowerMail Engineering" <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: One other wish for PM6
From: "Sean McBride" <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 19:18:23 -0500
PowerMail Engineering ([email protected]) on 2008-09-01 10:12 AM said:
>>Even when I ask it to tell
>>me more, all I get are cryptic error codes that don't provide any
>>indication (intelligible by me) of what, exactly, went wrong.
>
>If you have a reproducible case of a server error or network error that
>produce a generic error dialog with an error code, please let me know,
>so I can try to reproduce the problem to generate a more adequate error
>message.
I have one.
If I change my SMTP server settings: 'Use secure connection (SSL/TLS)
from OFF -> ON. Then PowerMail gives the message:
'Class=NetP; what=6; when=1'
and thunderbird gives a much better error.
Thanks,
Sean
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Subject: Re: Exported mail databases cannot be imported
From: "PowerMail Engineering" <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 18:54:54 +0100
[email protected] wrote:
>Under PowerMail 6, I exported some mail folders using File -> Database -
> Export... for archiving purposes. I would rather have used the new
>Archive and Cleanup feature, but apparently no one thought about adding
>the ability to select specific folders for Archiving...
To do this using "Archive and Cleanup", select all the folders you want
to archive, then search "in the selected folders and subfolders" for
messages whose date received is older than 0 day. Then use "archive and
cleanup" on "all messages from the search results window".
>So, I exported quite a few folders into the PowerMail Exchange format,
>preserving folder hierarchy and including attachments. I then threw all
>those exported folders into the Trash, deleted the Trash, and compacted
>the Message Database.
Well, the problem is "preserve folder hierarchy". It does NOT mean
"include subfolders"; it means that if you selected multiple folders and
subfolders, a single export file will contain the messages from the
selected folders (but not unselected subfolders), and when you import
this file, it will restore the folder hierarchy. When this option is not
checked, each folder is exported to a separate file, and when you import
that, each file will be imported to a new folder on the root folder level.
So, unless I have misunderstood the problem, I am afraid that you have
deleted some subfolders that were not exported.
We will change this dialog in 6.0.1 to avoid this confusion.
Really sorry for this
Jérôme - CTM Engineering
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