Re: maildir support in a future release, instead of mbox only?

2011-09-15 Thread Rich Gray
Alex Baer wrote: Rich Gray wrote: Alex Baer wrote: Re-creation of index files was unfortunately not done instantly in earlier versions. For large mbox files it takes ages. The whole concept slows down actions, such as copying 500 messages from one folder to another one significantly. It

Re: maildir support in a future release, instead of mbox only?

2011-09-14 Thread Alex Baer
Rich Gray wrote: Alex Baer wrote: Re-creation of index files was unfortunately not done instantly in earlier versions. For large mbox files it takes ages. The whole concept slows down actions, such as copying 500 messages from one folder to another one significantly. It takes so long, at

Re: maildir support in a future release, instead of mbox only?

2011-09-13 Thread Rich Gray
Alex Baer wrote: Re-creation of index files was unfortunately not done instantly in earlier versions. For large mbox files it takes ages. The whole concept slows down actions, such as copying 500 messages from one folder to another one significantly. It takes so long, at times, that I guess,

Re: maildir support in a future release, instead of mbox only?

2011-09-11 Thread cyberzen
S. Beaulieu a écrit : Alex Baer a écrit : This may or may not have been a great idea, but it became a huge problem, when after a crash the index files were damaged, and the program was unable to repair them, and all the structure information about the hierarchy of folders was lost. When you

Re: maildir support in a future release, instead of mbox only?

2011-09-11 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
Stanimir Stamenkov wrote: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 10:46:47 +0200, /Alex Baer/: Then I copied some mails into the new folders, and found that I can't copy anything into folder four. It is displayed in the hierarchy on the left pane, but the menu function copy to only works down to level three. One

Re: maildir support in a future release, instead of mbox only?

2011-09-11 Thread Alex Baer
Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Stanimir Stamenkov wrote: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 10:46:47 +0200, /Alex Baer/: Then I copied some mails into the new folders, and found that I can't copy anything into folder four. It is displayed in the hierarchy on the left pane, but the menu function copy to only

Re: maildir support in a future release, instead of mbox only?

2011-09-11 Thread PhillipJones
Alex Baer wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Stanimir Stamenkov wrote: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 10:46:47 +0200, /Alex Baer/: Then I copied some mails into the new folders, and found that I can't copy anything into folder four. It is displayed in the hierarchy on the left pane, but the menu function

maildir support in a future release, instead of mbox only?

2011-09-09 Thread Alex Baer
Hi everyone, I am new to this newsgroup, so please be patient with me, inittially. ;) My question has been asked several times in other forums and mailing lists, as it seems, certainly, but a quick web research didn't give any useful answers within the last 12 or 14 months. Of course,

Re: maildir support in a future release, instead of mbox only?

2011-09-09 Thread David E. Ross
On 9/9/11 8:47 AM, Alex Baer wrote: Hi everyone, I am new to this newsgroup, so please be patient with me, inittially. ;) My question has been asked several times in other forums and mailing lists, as it seems, certainly, but a quick web research didn't give any useful answers

Re: maildir support in a future release, instead of mbox only?

2011-09-09 Thread Alex Baer
David E. Ross wrote: On 9/9/11 8:47 AM, Alex Baer wrote: Hi everyone, I am new to this newsgroup, so please be patient with me, inittially. ;) My question has been asked several times in other forums and mailing lists, as it seems, certainly, but a quick web research didn't give

Re: maildir support in a future release, instead of mbox only?

2011-09-09 Thread S. Beaulieu
Alex Baer a écrit : But in the Mozilla mail clients it's possible to create virtual folder hierarchies and sub- structures. And this is DANGEROUS with mbox. I have had no problems with only one level of hierarchy (i. e. flat structure) using mbox. So my request is actually: Either remove the

Re: maildir support in a future release, instead of mbox only?

2011-09-09 Thread Alex Baer
S. Beaulieu wrote: Alex Baer a écrit : But in the Mozilla mail clients it's possible to create virtual folder hierarchies and sub- structures. And this is DANGEROUS with mbox. I have had no problems with only one level of hierarchy (i. e. flat structure) using mbox. So my request is

Re: maildir support in a future release, instead of mbox only?

2011-09-09 Thread Philip Chee
On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:47:06 +0200, Alex Baer wrote: Hi everyone, I am new to this newsgroup, so please be patient with me, inittially. ;) My question has been asked several times in other forums and mailing lists, as it seems, certainly, but a quick web research didn't give any

Re: maildir support in a future release, instead of mbox only?

2011-09-09 Thread S. Beaulieu
Alex Baer a écrit : This may or may not have been a great idea, but it became a huge problem, when after a crash the index files were damaged, and the program was unable to repair them, and all the structure information about the hierarchy of folders was lost. When you say index file, do you

Re: maildir support in a future release, instead of mbox only?

2011-09-09 Thread MCBastos
Interviewed by CNN on 09/09/2011 15:11, Alex Baer told the world: Because the functionality is there, I used it, and created a multi- level hierarchy of folders, sub-folders and sub-sub-folders to organise my mail. This may or may not have been a great idea, but it became a huge problem,