Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
Michael Lueck wrote:
A Williams wrote:
Michael Lueck wrote:
One remaining question... is there some command line way to instruct SM
to gracefully exit if possible (no unsaved emails open, etc...)? I would
require that if I am to automate a daily local backup.
That sounds very risky. Why not test for the existence of the SM
lock-file? There has to be a better solution.
I leave SM up "all the time". To do nightly automated backups, I would
have to send SM a message to exit, do the backup, the restart it.
I would check for the mentioned lock-file, and if that still exists,
skip the backup and log the error.
Seems pretty straightforward to me.
Unless you have a VERY slow connection, I see no benefit to leaving SM up to
collect mail while you're in bed. You're not browsing, and you're not installing
software, right? Stock market's probably closed while you are...
Might as well get in the habit of shutting it down when you shut down and
relaunching when you power yourself up. Costs you a minute to get mail as you're
drinking your hot morning beverage, but you get a full, reliable backup. And in
case SM gets cranky when its cache fills up or whatever (been known to happen
with lots of software), the periodic slate-cleaning can improve performance.
Tradeoff's worth it to me, YMMV.
Of course, if you were running something like uTorrent, I could see leaving that
on. But that's not what you said, and uTorrent doesn't require an active browser
to run.
Actually the reason Seamonkey runs on some machines is so I can use the message
filters to sort incoming mail into folders. And since I might read the IMAP mail
on the server with another program (Android gmail) I'd like to have the heavy
lifting done in SM rather than to play with perl or python scripts to do it on
the mail server.
That's why I want to restart SM, under heavy traffic it leaks, even heamorages
memory, or at least address space, and the mail filters are very easy to use, a
great human time saver writing rules.
--
Bill Davidsen <[email protected]>
We are not out of the woods yet, but we know the direction and have
taken the first step. The steps are many, but finite in number, and if
we persevere we will reach our destination. -me, 2010
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