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From: Ruthard Baudach <ruthard.baudach at web.de>
To: sup-talk <sup-talk at rubyforge.org>
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 16:26:03 +0200
Subject: Re: [sup-talk] Cannot view old messages
> === Tero Tilus schrieb am 2011-04-03 09:48: === <
> Ruthard Baudach, 2011-04-01 14:14:
> > I cannot view old messages in my mbox.
>
> Have you at some point been able to see them?
Yes I have.
> Could it be that the
> mbox file has since be modified?
Yes if has> Then the offsets (thats afaik how
> sup points to messages in mbox sources) stored in sup index for those
> messages might be all wrong and sup can''t find the raw message
> anymore.
Good idea - but should not be the problem.
What I did was to
1) exported my Opera mail.
2) run sup-sync /path/to/mbox
et voil? there was a running sup
weeks later I found out that I could not search mail that was several
years old but was not able to read the body of it.
Later on I moved my sup installation to another box by installing sup
there, copying the mbox file, and running sup-index on the new box.
I had to delete xapian and repeat this once or twice till everything
worked, and yes, I viewed the mbox once with mutt, and had to re-sync
and relabel afterwards.
Several weeks later I searched for an email from Okt/2010 - when I
already used, yet on my old machine - and could not read the body.
Does anyone else have the same problem?
I can live with that at the moment, but it would be not nice, if it were
a real sup "feature".
Ruthard
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