[Coco] OT Problems with Windows Mail on Vista

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 09 February 2010, Stephen H. Fischer wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Gene Heskett" <gene.heskett at verizon.net>
>To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 11:17 PM
>Subject: Re: [Coco] OT Problems with Windows Mail on Vista
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>> Or (sorry Stephen, can't resist the nudge)
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>Hi,
>
>You should not have said that, yours was one of three unread messages in my
>Windows Main "[CoCo]" folder that show up only when I select "Hide Read or
>Ignored Messages". They are BOLD and so are unread.
>
>Are you setting the message "Ignored" Flag?
>
Not to my knowledge, Stephen.  That I would think, is a local attribute to 
your machine as there is not such a marker line in the headers that I know 
about.  That of course means I'm way out on that limb and sawing furiously on 
it. ;-)

>My inbox is clean now the "[CoCo]" subfolder is no longer under "Inbox".
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>And the "[CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts]" folder has ~ 14
>messages.
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>I want to compact the folders but that option is missing. I may have to
> wait until the counter triggers it.

That also is not under my control here, but I do see a msg in the status bar 
that it successfully compacted this or that folder.  However if I should 
forget to stop kmail before I reboot, which the stopping commits the new db 
to the HD, then any unread mails I have read since the last reboot are 
magically recovered, so I do have a recovery mechanism of sorts.
I can also use the left-right arrow keys to read fwd or backwards thru the 
folder regardless on the read/unread status, and the folders contents pane 
shows all messages with bold & color attributes to show messages read, 
messages replied to, yadda yadda.  A deleted message isn't truly gone till 
kmail has been shut down cleanly, and restarted.

I have some folders set for lowered message lifetimes, usually the 100's of 
messages a day folders like lkml, so they get expired fairly rapidly, as 
little as 2 weeks, but some lists are not expired at all, the inbox, and this 
coco list are complete except for spam leakage that has been deleted, since 
the last major drive failure that caught me without a valid backup, and that 
was in 2002, 8 years ago.  I have amanda setup to do her thing nightly, using 
another 1Tb drive dedicated as 30 virtual tapes.  I get a full level 0 backup 
of everything on this box, plus pieces of my milling machines Kubuntu-6.06 
LTS box out in the shop at some point in a 4 day cycle.  Amanda's automatic 
scheduler tries to equalize the 'tape' usage by shuffling the schedule so 
that each nights run uses a similar amount of 'tape'.  And it actually works 
quite well at that if the default tape size setting is small enough to force 
the issue.  One, really big disklist entry can muck that up though, and does 
here somewhat as my /usr/movies directory is about 31Gb.  I have a Sony 
TVR-460 Handi-cam that generates about 100Gb an hour.  Raw files, but they 
compress well, a 22 minute wedding can be shrunk to less than 350 megabytes & 
fits on a VCD nicely, and it still plays back at 720x480 on this 1680x1250 
monitor.

But this is getting OT rapidly...  And amanda commercial yet. ;)

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