Hi Tony, I know very well how IMAP works :-)
However, the server couldn't tell TheBat that the messages were deleted, because access to the server was denied the minute my account got deactivated. The scenario you describe would happen if the account was still active, but the folder contents were deleted. Then, of course, TB would delete the local folder contents as well. In my case, the account became deactivated, so TB couldn't connect and therefore never got any information like "folders are empty". In fact, at some point I changed the domain to something invalid and told TB to stop trying to synchronize, as all I needed was access to the local copy of the messages. This local copy is definitely still there, or else the account's MAIL folder wouldn't be over 1 GB in size. To me it seems like TB did the following when updating from v4 to v5: - new cache files were created, all messages were re-downloaded (which in my case resulted in empty folders, as access to the server wasn't possible) - the old cache files stay on disk but are not used anymore. So most IMAP users should now have their old cache files on disk, eating up lots of space despite not being used. Good job, Ritlabs! Cheers, Carsten On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Tony Hoare <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Carsten, > > > How can I access these messages? And what is this, that they stay > > on the hard drive but are not shown in TB v5? > > I hope this isn't true for you but, with IMAP, TB! only has a cache of > the messages on the server because the server has the 'master' copy. > This is unlike POP3 where the mail is downloaded to the client. > > If TB! has contacted the server and was told that all messages have > been deleted, TB! will (should) delete the local cache. > > Hopefully, you have a backup. It is also worth noting that you can > upload messages to a server with IMAP. Simply copy them to the > required IMAP folder and TB! will upload them. If you recover your > messages make sure that TB! cannot contact the server (to be told to > delete them again). You can then copy them to another IMAP server. > > Good luck! > > -- > Best regards, > Tony mailto:[email protected] > > The Bat! 5.0.34.2 > > > ________________________________________________________ > Current beta is 5.0.34.3 | 'Using TBBETA' information: > http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html >
________________________________________________________ Current beta is 5.0.34.3 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
