Re: Thunderbird question
On 07/05/2015 01:45 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote:
On 07/04/2015 02:16 PM, jd1008 wrote:
> On 07/04/2015 03:00 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote:
>> If you're connecting over IMAP, you can delete the cache:
>> rm -rf .thunderbird/*.default/ImapMail/imap.googlemail.com*
> Using pop - I had had undesireable experience with Imap,
> so I switched to pop. One of the reasons was that I needed
> to re-read old messages in situations where I had no internet
> access.
In that case, you can probably leave that in place, but set up a
second Gmail profile using IMAP, temporarily. IMAP has access to the
full message store, and you can copy the messages locally. I don't
know of a way to make Thunderbird download your mail otherwise. Maybe
move everything to the Inbox would work? It's hard to say.
Either way, you can configure IMAP to keep a copy of all mail locally,
and I believe that's the default. Access to mail while offline should
work just fine with IMAP.
Google will not let me do that :(
I already tried.
I have no idea why gmail is not letting TB to connect to same account
(using a different profile that uses IMAP instead of POP).
>> Though this should be a reminder that backups matter.
> Goes without saying :)
> I boldly ran the repair without first backing up Inbox :)
By that time, it was already too late. Backing up corrupt data really
doesn't do you much good. You needed a backup from before it became
corrupt. So, I'll restate my original point:
*Regular* backups matter. Don't skip them. Don't leave them until
you feel like you might need them. Run backups on a predictable,
regular schedule.
>> Also consider using Maildir instead of the default Berkeley format:
>> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/Maildir
>>
> Not sure what that gives me.
> Does is turn each message into a separate file?
> If so, not for me.
Yes, Maildir keeps each message in a separate file. It's much less
likely to become corrupt than mbox.
With mbox, any time you remove a message from a folder (either
deleting it or moving it to another folder), the entire mbox file has
to be re-written. If you delete/move a message from a very large
folder, that can generate a lot of disk activity, and creates a long
window in which an interruption can corrupt the folder. With Maildir,
all operations should be atomic. An interruption should never destroy
an entire folder.
I had tried evolution mail client, which used a mail dir.
Did not like the evolution interface, so I switched to TB.
It was long ago, and I do not even recall what it was I did not like
about :)