Freron MailMate

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  benny February 17th, 2011 @ 02:16 PM

  • State changed from “new” to “accepted”

  I'll do what I can to help you via private email.

  For the record: MailMate does not like when messages are removed behind
  its back. It could be more forgiving in this regard, but it is a tricky
  problem. When MailMate receives a message it keeps a copy of it and puts
  all the headers in a separate custom “database” for fast searching.
  When the message is deleted, it needs the message again in order to know
  which headers need to be deleted. The only alternative is to scan
  through (and thus loading) all headers in the database. This would be
  very inefficient, but this is of course what MailMate could offer to do
  when this situation arises. But the problem could arise in other cases
  than when deleting a message, e.g., if trying to view a message which
  has been deleted on disk (leads to a crash as well).

  Maybe the best solution would be for MailMate to do the slow scanning of
  the database (after warning about the problem) and then create a fake
  message on disk which can then be deleted, viewed, or whatever triggered
  the request for the message. I'll put that on the todo.

  I'll keep this ticket open until the above has been implemented.

  [state:accepted]

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  Thomas Hanke February 17th, 2011 @ 08:17 PM

  Hi Benny,

  sorry: for my problem at hand, Time Machine's the solution, of course.

  I just took a guess when I deleted the folder 'Local' (only two days off), copied it back, and voilà!
  Now there's only 1 message left in the 'Local/imported' sub-folder. I guess I'm save to delete it.

  I understand the database issue - well, well enough, at least.
  It's just never occurred to me since I haven't got any feedback on missing files in the last 4 weeks. I guess that means that MM never checks for the presence of 'Local' files. Anyway, they're gone now.

  I don't use it - TM - very often, so it took some time to remember it. +1 point for separate small email files, of course.

  Kind of related personal insight: I learned, well realized (again?), today that .noindex can be used to exclude Spotlight.

  Thomas

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  benny October 9th, 2013 @ 07:02 AM

  • State changed from “accepted” to “closed”

  (Cleaning up old tickets.)

  Situations like these should now trigger MailMate to ask to rebuild the database. (It is still not allowed to remove messages behind MailMate's back, but I think that is a fair requirement.)