Summary: | Lost POP account messages caused by power outage during download? | ||
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Product: | Claws Mail (GTK 2) | Reporter: | Ralf Mardorf <info.mardorf> |
Component: | POP3 | Assignee: | users |
Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | ||
Severity: | normal | ||
Priority: | P1 | ||
Version: | 3.15.1 | ||
Hardware: | PC | ||
OS: | Linux |
Description
Ralf Mardorf
2017-06-22 06:28:36 UTC
A discussion on the users' mailing list prior to this would have been sensible. Some things to try: * Go to ~/.claws-mail/uidl/ and empty the file belonging to the account in question. Then fetch mail again. Your mail will be downloaded again. If that is not to restore them: * right-click the top-level mailbox on choose 'Check for new messages' >* right-click the top-level mailbox on choose 'Check for new messages' I tried this first to no avail, but to be honest., I first deleted the "No subject" mails. >* Go to ~/.claws-mail/uidl/ and empty the file belonging to the >account in question. Then fetch mail again. Your mail will be >downloaded again. I didn't do this, because I wanted to avoid to receive duplicates of mails that came in later, so I waited for a response to my bug report. However, since I thought that the amount of duplicated mails can't be too much, I've done it now. Unfortunately I was mistaken and for some accounts I received far too much duplicated messages. Actually I delete the mails of two POP accounts very often manually from the servers, while for other accounts I only let one MUA delete the mails after one day from the servers, so I got to much duplicated mails from those servers. Another _very serious_ pitfall, a lot of mails I already read are now marked as unread. Deleting a few duplicated mails was much work, so I have given up and stay with a several duplicates. I also re-read a few mails, but I also have given up on marking all read mails as read again. Next time I might not want to run rm -i ~/.claws-mail/uidl/* again ;) and simply accept that some mails are not available by Claws, but still by Evolution. In short, deleting ~/.claws-mail/uidl/affected_accounts only is useful, if the mails are completely lost, but if they are available by another MUA, the deletion does cause more of a mess, than it is a benefit. PS: On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 06:48:20 +0000, noreply@thewildbeast.co.uk wrote: >A discussion on the users' mailing list prior to this would have been >sensible. I still consider this an unsolved bug. Excepted of the two accounts were I delete the mails more often than for the accounts were another MUA deletes them after a day, I got many duplicates I already received before the power outage. This is expected if you removed the UIDL files (to solve the former issue). To purge duplicates -> Tools / Delete duplicated messages / In selected folder. >To purge duplicates -> Tools / Delete duplicated messages / In
>selected folder.
I fear another pitfall when doing this, so I don't try it, since the
real issue are the read mails that are now marked as read.
My apologies, I'm in a hurry. I fear another pitfall when doing this, so I don't try it, since the real issue are the read mails that are now marked as read. ^^^^^ unread ;). The duplicates are not that much of an issue. closing as INVALID as no mails were lost. |