Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-03-23 Thread Daniel Barclay
Steve Lamb wrote: Daniel B. wrote: ... (When you logically tentatively delete a message from the Inbox folder and Seamonkey logically moves it to the Trash folder, there's still a physical copy of the data in the file that implements the Inbox folder. That physical copy is never available to

Re: Using courier-imap (was Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove)

2007-02-25 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> > Am 2007-02-14 16:45:42, schrieb Chris Bannister: > > > That would be great! Would this be ok: > > > # Mailboxes which get new mail. > > > mailboxes `echo $HOME/.Maildir/*` > On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 05:45:21PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > No it would not since you have to setup: > > > >

Re: Using courier-imap (was Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove)

2007-02-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 05:45:21PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2007-02-14 16:45:42, schrieb Chris Bannister: > > That would be great! Would this be ok: > > # Mailboxes which get new mail. > > mailboxes `echo $HOME/.Maildir/*` > > No it would not since you have to setup: > > set folder=ima

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-21 Thread Steve Lamb
Daniel B. wrote: > Steve Lamb wrote: >> This is no different. > Actually, it is. Sorry, nope. > We're not talking about Seamonkey's Trash folder to which tentatively > deleted messages are moved and from which users can recover or really > delete those tentatively deleted messages, worki

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-21 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-02-14 22:32:43, schrieb Roberto C. Sanchez: > Unless you are the sort of person who keeps 20,000 messages in a folder > or mailbox. I have seen such a thing. Where is the problem? My INBOX.ML_debian.user/ has arround 18 Messages and my [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ environement 37. OH, cur

Re: Using courier-imap (was Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove)

2007-02-21 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-02-16 12:35:44, schrieb Roberto C. Sanchez: > That is more of a policy issue than a technical limitation. I think it > has more to do with Debian trying to adhere closely to the traditional > Unix philosophy. This is WHY I love Debian! ...and Debian should never go away from the philosop

Re: Using courier-imap (was Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove)

2007-02-21 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-02-17 03:29:31, schrieb Chris Bannister: > > Mutt can directly read Maildir folders? (I don't see why it > > shouldn't, but it just never occurred to me.) > > set mbox_type=Maildir This is only for writing! Mutt can read mbox, Maildir and MH without changes by default. > > Procmail? Y

Re: Using courier-imap (was Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove)

2007-02-21 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-02-14 16:45:42, schrieb Chris Bannister: > That would be great! Would this be ok: > # Mailboxes which get new mail. > mailboxes `echo $HOME/.Maildir/*` No it would not since you have to setup: set folder=imaps://localhost mailboxes =INBOX \ =INBOX.IN-debian-user \ ... You need to creatr

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-21 Thread Daniel B.
Freddy Freeloader wrote: ... ... Any message that has been deleted in Icedove/Thunderbird/SeaMonkey is recoverable, at least up until the time the folder is compacted or the Trash folder is emptied, from the Trash folder. After that happens then, no, the message is not recoverable. What is

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-21 Thread Daniel B.
Steve Lamb wrote: Dave Sherohman wrote: OK, one more time: Delete by default does not have to mean delete *immediately* by default. Look at the underlined text above. I already explicitly stated that I didn't mean immediate deletion and that delete- on-folder-change or delete-on-exit are prob

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove - monolithic files not always bad

2007-02-21 Thread Daniel B.
Steve Lamb wrote: ... And before we get into this again I only have to ask one question. If a single file is such a bad thing why is it MySQL (and other) databases don't store records per file but, instead, per table? You'd think the corruption problem would be just as bad for them. And y

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-21 Thread Daniel B.
Dave Sherohman wrote: On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 02:30:48PM -0500, Daniel B. wrote: Dave Sherohman wrote: On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 12:36:55PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: I was complaining solely about the use of "compact" to mean "delete". Are you confusing the logical level (what the user al

Re: Using courier-imap (was Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove)

2007-02-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 10:35:23AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Modularity is one of the main reasons why I like Debian, and won't > willingly go back to an RPM system. > > Mandrake packaged Python and all the miscellaneous libraries into > one big RPM. Install Python and in comes XFree. Too s

Re: Using courier-imap (was Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove)

2007-02-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/16/07 10:06, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 09:50:10AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> If you're behind a firewall, all should be fine. >> >> The "rule" against putting X on servers is based on "don't put >> anything on a server

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-16 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: > *Solving* the corrupted-mbox problem means moving to Maildir (or, > less popularly, mh) storage. Which is not a panacea. All it does is introduce a different set of problems. ~20,000 individual files in a directory may be more resilient against corruption part way throu

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-16 Thread Steve Lamb
charlie derr wrote: > No, we use dovecot which stores email files in Maildir format on the > server. Dovecot *can* store mail in MailDir. It is not a given. dovecot-common - secure mail server that supports mbox and maildir mailboxes dovecot-imapd - secure IMAP server that supports mbox and

Re: Using courier-imap (was Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove)

2007-02-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 09:50:10AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > If you're behind a firewall, all should be fine. > > The "rule" against putting X on servers is based on "don't put > anything on a server that you don't need". The reasoning is two- > fold: > 1. Security: more "stuff" means a bigg

Re: Using courier-imap (was Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove)

2007-02-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/16/07 08:29, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 12:01:41AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 02/13/07 21:45, Chris Bannister wrote: >>> from your mail data flow diagram: (plus your IMAP server is >>> haggis) >>> >>> fetchmail -> postf

Re: Using courier-imap (was Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove)

2007-02-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 12:01:41AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/13/07 21:45, Chris Bannister wrote: > > from your mail data flow diagram: (plus your IMAP server is > > haggis) > > > > fetchmail -> postfix -> SpamAssassin -> maildrop -> Maildir > > > > All those programs run on haggis? > > S

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-15 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 01:00:22PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:32:43PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > > > Unless you are the sort of person who keeps 20,000 messages in a folder > > or mailbox. I have seen such a thing. > > does that mean I have a pro

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-15 Thread charlie derr
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/15/07 15:21, charlie derr wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:32:43PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Unless you are the sort of person who keeps 20,000 messages in a folder or mailbox. I have

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/15/07 15:21, charlie derr wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:32:43PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >>> Unless you are the sort of person who keeps 20,000 messages in a folder >>> or mailbox. I have seen such a

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/15/07 15:00, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:32:43PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> Unless you are the sort of person who keeps 20,000 messages in a folder >> or mailbox. I have seen such a thing. > > does that me

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-15 Thread charlie derr
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:32:43PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Unless you are the sort of person who keeps 20,000 messages in a folder or mailbox. I have seen such a thing. does that mean I have a problem? A For whatever it's worth, I'm writing this messa

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:32:43PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > Unless you are the sort of person who keeps 20,000 messages in a folder > or mailbox. I have seen such a thing. does that mean I have a problem? A signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-15 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:58:19PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Dave Sherohman wrote: > > OK, one more time: Delete by default does not have to mean delete > > *immediately* by default. Look at the underlined text above. I already > > explicitly stated that I didn't mean immediate deletion and tha

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-14 Thread Steve Lamb
Dave Sherohman wrote: > OK, one more time: Delete by default does not have to mean delete > *immediately* by default. Look at the underlined text above. I already > explicitly stated that I didn't mean immediate deletion and that delete- > on-folder-change or delete-on-exit are probably better,

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-14 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 04:23:17PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > OK, one more time: Delete by default does not have to mean delete > *immediately* by default. Look at the underlined text above. I already > explicitly stated that I didn't mean immediate deletion and that delete- > on-folder-c

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-14 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Dave Sherohman wrote: On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 02:30:48PM -0500, Daniel B. wrote: Dave Sherohman wrote: On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 12:36:55PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: I was complaining solely about the use of "compact" to mean "delete". Are you confusing the logical level (w

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-14 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/14/07 16:23, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 03:42:15PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> If the tool does not provide a means to undelete messages, then I also >>> find the decision to not make permanent deletion (either when the use

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-14 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 03:42:15PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > If the tool does not provide a means to undelete messages, then I also > > find the decision to not make permanent deletion (either when the user > > changes f

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-14 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/14/07 15:26, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 02:30:48PM -0500, Daniel B. wrote: >> Dave Sherohman wrote: >>> On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 12:36:55PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >>> I was complaining solely about the use of "compac

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-14 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 02:30:48PM -0500, Daniel B. wrote: > Dave Sherohman wrote: > >On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 12:36:55PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >I was complaining solely about the use of "compact" to mean "delete". > > Are you confusing the logical level (what the user almost always de

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-14 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/14/07 13:30, Daniel B. wrote: > Dave Sherohman wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 12:36:55PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez >> wrote: > ... [snip] > > At the logical level, the messages are already deleted (from the > folder). There is no way to get t

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-14 Thread Daniel B.
Dave Sherohman wrote: On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 12:36:55PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: ... I was complaining solely about the use of "compact" to mean "delete". Are you confusing the logical level (what the user almost always deals with) with the physical level? At the logical level, the

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-14 Thread Stephen
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 03:33:47PM + or thereabouts, Paul Walsh wrote: [ ...] > "You learn something new every day" the saying goes. > > I hadn't realised about the function of the "Compact" option 'til I > read this thread. Might (partially) explain why my windozZe laptop > goes into meltd

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-14 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/14/07 09:33, Paul Walsh wrote: > Daniel D Jones wrote: > >> messages. Compact. That's what the operation was called, and >> that's what the drop down menu said. That was in the early >> '90s, over 20 years ago. >> >> > I presume you meant "

Re: Using courier-imap (was Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove)

2007-02-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 12:01:41AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Mutt can directly read Maildir folders? (I don't see why it > shouldn't, but it just never occurred to me.) > > > changing the procmail recipe delivery folder from > > "path/to/folder" to > > Procmail? You probably like Perl, too

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-14 Thread Paul Walsh
Daniel D Jones wrote: > messages. Compact. That's what the operation was called, and that's what > the drop down menu said. That was in the early '90s, over 20 years ago. > > I presume you meant "early '80s"? "You learn something new every day" the saying goes. I hadn't realised about th

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-14 Thread Daniel D Jones
On Tuesday 13 February 2007 22:45, Chris Bannister wrote: > > "Compact", in that sense, refering to expunging deleted messages from an > > mbox or other mail store, has been *the* common word for that action for > > literally decades, predating even the popular internet (e.g. in the days > > of BBS

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-14 Thread Stephen Chadfield
Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Never struck it when dealing with mail. Before I came to Linux I had use > Pegasus, Eudora, Groupwise something or other. When I started using > Linux at Polytech, it was Pine. I don't remember having to compact > anything to *actually* delete mail. In

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/13/07 21:45, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 02:31:39PM -0700, Wesley J. Landaker wrote: >> On Monday 12 February 2007 14:33, Chris Bannister wrote: >>> On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 09:50:18PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: Dave Sheroh

Re: Using courier-imap (was Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove)

2007-02-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/13/07 21:45, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 10:22:46AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> Also, my mail data flow is: fetchmail -> postfix -> >> SpamAssassin -> maildrop -> Maildir. >> >> I fetchmail my wife's mail the same way. Win

Re: Using courier-imap (was Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove)

2007-02-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 10:22:46AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > Also, my mail data flow is: > fetchmail -> postfix -> SpamAssassin -> maildrop -> Maildir. > > I fetchmail my wife's mail the same way. Windows Tbird looks over > the LAN to find it. No sweat. Ahh, across the LAN. :-) Networking :-(

Re: Using courier-imap (was Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove)

2007-02-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 09:03:13AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:01:56PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > Personally, I don't like clutter in my $HOME, so I changed the courier > config to use ~/.Maildir instead of ~/Maildir. Thats only for ls -l asthetics? > > To c

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 02:31:39PM -0700, Wesley J. Landaker wrote: > On Monday 12 February 2007 14:33, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 09:50:18PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > Dave Sherohman wrote: > > > > On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 02:30:33PM +, Virgo Pärna wrote: > > > > I t

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-13 Thread Daniel D Jones
On Saturday 10 February 2007 10:10, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 02:30:33PM +, Virgo Pärna wrote: > > To make Thunderbird/Icedove to really delete those messages you can > > use File, Compact Folders and you can specify configuration option > > "Compact folders when it wi

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/11/07 23:50, Steve Lamb wrote: > Dave Sherohman wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 02:30:33PM +, Virgo Pärna wrote: >> I think I'll side with the people who think this obscure use of the word >> "compact" is a bug in IceDove (and just continue

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-12 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Monday 12 February 2007 14:33, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 09:50:18PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > > Dave Sherohman wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 02:30:33PM +, Virgo Pärna wrote: > > > I think I'll side with the people who think this obscure use of the > > > word "c

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 09:50:18PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Dave Sherohman wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 02:30:33PM +, Virgo Pärna wrote: > > I think I'll side with the people who think this obscure use of the word > > "compact" is a bug in IceDove (and just continue using mutt). > >

Re: Using courier-imap (was Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove)

2007-02-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/12/07 04:01, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 07:43:37AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> IMAP is designed for what you what you want to do. Run an imapd on >> your box (courier-imap is popular and easy) and tell you MUA to use >> th

Re: Using courier-imap (was Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove)

2007-02-12 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:01:56PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > If you use fetchmail to get your mail from your ISP, is it still easy? > At the moment I use fetchmail and maildrop. Once courier-imap is > installed, do I just change my .mailfilter from say: > > ##

Using courier-imap (was Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove)

2007-02-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 07:43:37AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > IMAP is designed for what you what you want to do. Run an imapd on > your box (courier-imap is popular and easy) and tell you MUA to use > the IMAP protocol instead of mbox. Hi Ron, If you use fetchmail to get your mail from your ISP

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-11 Thread Dave Ewart
On Sunday, 11.02.2007 at 21:39 +0100, Fabian (Lists) wrote: > > 1. Set "When I delete a message" to be "Move it to Deleted", and > > also set "Empty Deleted folder on Exit; > > [snip] > > This is true for an IMAP folder. But that's not what this thread is > about. For IMAP you can also enable 'E

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-11 Thread Steve Lamb
Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 02:30:33PM +, Virgo Pärna wrote: > I think I'll side with the people who think this obscure use of the word > "compact" is a bug in IceDove (and just continue using mutt). You mean the people who are oblivious to the fact that compact, as you

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-11 Thread Fabian (Lists)
Dave Ewart wrote: > On Sunday, 11.02.2007 at 18:47 +0100, Fabian (Lists) wrote: > >> There is an extension [1] for thunderbird/icedove which provides a >> toolbar button to purge the pseudo-deleted messages. Funny that one >> needs to install a third-party extension for such a basic function... >

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-11 Thread Dave Ewart
On Sunday, 11.02.2007 at 18:47 +0100, Fabian (Lists) wrote: > There is an extension [1] for thunderbird/icedove which provides a > toolbar button to purge the pseudo-deleted messages. Funny that one > needs to install a third-party extension for such a basic function... Except that you *don't* ne

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-11 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/11/07 10:33, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 10:06:35AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 02/11/07 09:31, Dave Sherohman wrote: >>> On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 12:36:55PM -0500, Robe

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-11 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/11/07 11:47, Fabian (Lists) wrote: > Dave Sherohman wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 02:30:33PM +, Virgo Pärna wrote: >>> To make Thunderbird/Icedove to really delete those messages you can use >>> File, Compact Folders and you can spec

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-11 Thread Fabian (Lists)
Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 02:30:33PM +, Virgo Pärna wrote: >> To make Thunderbird/Icedove to really delete those messages you can use >> File, Compact Folders and you can specify configuration option "Compact >> folders when it will save over XXX kB" (you can also sp

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-11 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 10:06:35AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/11/07 09:31, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 12:36:55PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >> On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 09:10:46AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: >

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-11 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/11/07 09:31, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 12:36:55PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 09:10:46AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: [snip] > Please note the lack of any complaint about tag-then-delete in my

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 12:36:55PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 09:10:46AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > I think I'll side with the people who think this obscure use of the word > > "compact" is a bug in IceDove (and just continue using mutt). > > > Ever have a hug

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 08:26:42PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Does that mean that with Maildirs you lose teh ability to undelete > messages? > Not if you are still using a Trash folder. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.c

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-10 Thread hendrik
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 12:31:03PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 09:08:00AM -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > > I've never used anything but mutt. Surely someone doesn't have to run > > imapd just so that their mail gets deleted when they tell a MUA to > > delet

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 09:10:46AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 02:30:33PM +, Virgo Pärna wrote: > > To make Thunderbird/Icedove to really delete those messages you can use > > File, Compact Folders and you can specify configuration option "Compact > > folders wh

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 09:08:00AM -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > I've never used anything but mutt. Surely someone doesn't have to run > imapd just so that their mail gets deleted when they tell a MUA to > delete a mail. I'd call that a bug. > Switching from mbox to Maildir would probab

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-10 Thread Dave Ewart
On Saturday, 10.02.2007 at 09:10 -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 02:30:33PM +, Virgo Pärna wrote: > > To make Thunderbird/Icedove to really delete those messages you can use > > File, Compact Folders and you can specify configuration option "Compact > > folders whe

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 02:30:33PM +, Virgo Pärna wrote: > To make Thunderbird/Icedove to really delete those messages you can use > File, Compact Folders and you can specify configuration option "Compact > folders when it will save over XXX kB" (you can also specify specific amount > of

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-10 Thread Virgo Pärna
On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 03:12:47 -0800 (PST), Arc Roca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would have expected this in a windows application, > but not in one of ours!!! > Actually - mutt does the same thing - when message is deleted, it's marked as deleted and not actually deleted. Check man muttr

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-10 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/10/07 08:08, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 07:43:37AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 02/10/07 05:12, Arc Roca wrote: >>> Exploring my system, I decided to open Inbox with mutt >>> -f, and discovered that no message that I

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-10 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 07:43:37AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/10/07 05:12, Arc Roca wrote: > > Exploring my system, I decided to open Inbox with mutt > > -f, and discovered that no message that I had deleted > > had really been deleted. They were all there, from the > > very first, in the sa

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-10 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/10/07 05:12, Arc Roca wrote: > Exploring my system, I decided to open Inbox with mutt > -f, and discovered that no message that I had deleted > had really been deleted. They were all there, from the > very first, in the same file Inbox. Invisible

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-10 Thread Clive Menzies
On (10/02/07 03:12), Arc Roca wrote: > Exploring my system, I decided to open Inbox with mutt > -f, and discovered that no message that I had deleted > had really been deleted. They were all there, from the > very first, in the same file Inbox. Invisible from > icedove interface (probably through t

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-10 Thread Wackojacko
Arc Roca wrote: Exploring my system, I decided to open Inbox with mutt -f, and discovered that no message that I had deleted had really been deleted. They were all there, from the very first, in the same file Inbox. Invisible from icedove interface (probably through tagging), but clearly visible

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-10 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 03:12:47 -0800 (PST) Arc Roca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Exploring my system, I decided to open Inbox with mutt > -f, and discovered that no message that I had deleted > had really been deleted. They were all there, from the > very first, in the same file Inbox. Invisible fro

Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-10 Thread Arc Roca
Exploring my system, I decided to open Inbox with mutt -f, and discovered that no message that I had deleted had really been deleted. They were all there, from the very first, in the same file Inbox. Invisible from icedove interface (probably through tagging), but clearly visible and present from m