[sylpheed:33919] Re: More messages lost - a disaster...

[Bruce Bowler]

None of what you said surpises me.  When I said "exit", I meant shut
down sylpheed.

I understand what you're saying about losing messages, but I'm not
aware of another way to find out what's going on.

A couple of things you might be able to try, depending on if your
service providers permit it, that might mitigate the apparent loss of
messages.

- use IMAP instead of POP.  That way the mail is still on the server in
the event that sylpheed is really and truly deleting it from your PC
(note, I believe it's still there, you just can't find it).

- continue to use POP but set it so that it doesn't remove messages
from the server immediately, but will only delete messages from the
server that are more than X days old.

This should probably go back "on list" in case another user
may have other ideas.


On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:29:22 -0700 "J. Michael Fritch"
<jmfritch at pacificstar.us.com> put fingers to keyboard and said:

> Well, here's something new. After receiving your email just now, I 
> reopened Sylpheed. Logically, the prog immediately went to pick up 
> any new emails received - which there were none, of course. Now, 
> while was doing its thing, I quickly went back to Tools--Log Window
> and found the file just as I had seen it earlier - chronicling an
> 11:24AM "pick-up run" through my accounts - and nothing about
> yesterday.
> 
> When I went back to that file a bit later (because of what I wanted 
> to copy), I found some _error messages_ in red, and with a time stamp 
> showing 11:58AM. Then, following the error messages, there's a
> section in green with more error notes. Does that happen to provide
> any clue?
> 
> Next after that, there's the record of a next following message check
> at 12:28PM. No comments there.
> 
> I made a .doc copy for you this time because, as opposed to the .txt
> files, here you can see the color renditions that I told you about.
>  
> In what you are suggesting I should do, though, there's an inherent
> problem. I can't very well knowingly have even more genuine incoming
> messages get "lost" before my own eyes. Right now, I am running out
> of time but tomorrow, will send another batch of mail files from
> another prog to Sylpheed, then take it from there.
> 
> Michael
> 
>  
> 
> :I *think* but have never checked to be sure that sylpheed dumps the
> :log file each time you exit, and there doesn't appear to be anything
> :amiss in the one you sent.
> :
> :If it should happen again, make sure you grab the log file before you
> :exit the program, it probably has some usefull information in it.
> :
> :Bruce
> :
> :
> :On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:45:49 -0700 "J.
> :Michael Fritch" <jmfritch at pacificstar.us.com> put fingers to keyboard
> :and said:
> :
> :> Thanks for the quick reply.
> :> 
> :> Had closed Sylpheed after the 'disaster', used Courier to
> communicate. :> Reopened Sylpheed now to look for the info you were
> asking about and :> as soon as I did, Sylpheed started checking for
> _new_ mail. :> 
> :> Moments later, when I got to the log window, there was only the log
> :> file for the message check of just moments before - nothing about
> :> the ill-fated download, unfortunately.
> :> 
> :> Still, I copied that log entry and am attaching it here, in case
> you :> can see anything of interest there.
> :> 
> :> Michael
> :> 
> :>  
> :> 
> :> :On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:21:17 -0700
> :> :"J. Michael Fritch" <jmfritch at pacificstar.us.com> put fingers to
> :> :keyboard and said:
> :> :
> :> :> Hello,
> :> :> 
> :> :> I wrote yesterday, giving these details: I am using Sylpheed
> :> version :> 2.7.1 - GTK+ 2.10.14 / GLib 2.12.13 Operating System:
> :> Win32. :> 
> :> :> Have not even seen any post of mine on the Sylpheed site yet
> but, :> :> moments ago, as soon as I opened Sylpheed, I watched
> horrorized as :> :> <nine> messages were shown as being downloaded
> for different :> accounts :> of mine but not a single one showed up
> in my inbox, nor :> anywhere else. :> 
> :> :> Could I _please_ have some help with this?
> :> :> 
> :> :> Sincerely,
> :> :> 
> :> :> Michael Fritch
> :> :> 
> :> :
> :> :What, if anything shows up in the protocol log (Tools >> log
> window) :> :when this happened?
> :> :
> :> :-- 
> :> :
> :>

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