Hello Roelof, TBS>> I dont advise it. RO> Actually, that's up to you.
Yes, I know. TBS>> I have many input from TB users. I have observed ONLY two ways to lose TBS>> mails: TBS>> 1. Compress on exit checked in Inbox properties TBS>> 2. Compress all folders on exit in Account/Properties RO> The most common reason for losing mail as I have observed it, is RO> 'not compressing' any folders. Whether you compress folders RO> automatically or manually doesn't matter very much, but it's the RO> unlimited growth of of folders without compressing at all that RO> does most damage, especially when we're discussing the inbox. As you see, I advise USE the manual compression. 100%, again: 100% of the users have lost their mail in cases 1 or 2. None has lost emails, because they did not compress mails. Believe me, they would complain immediately. I am sure, when closing TB there must be rare cases when you can lose mails. And I have contact with a lot of users, so statistically I see these things happen. If I see well so far, the bug is between the creation of the new, compressed file with some temporary name and the deletion of the old, uncompressed TBB file. That is why I wanted to take a look at that code closely. But I accept, Ritlabs does not want to show me that. When I will have time, I will setup a Bat on an other machine and run some batch that would start TB, import a mail to the Inbox, close the program with Compress at exit and start the whole routine automatically. If I observe mail loss, I will do this on different machines, maybe have some observation coming out of this experience. RO> However, we were discussing IMAP folders and I don't think that RO> TB's compressing routines really count as each IMAP server stores RO> its stuff differently, so I highly suspect that the server's RO> compressing routines are used. Sorry, I should have mentioned, that I just wanted to write this precaution stuff FYI, only. When I started to caution users for this fact, I dont have complains anymore :))) I just wanted to share my experience with the group. -- Vili ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.5 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
