On 1/14/2013 23:02, g wrote: > > On 01/15/2013 02:09 AM, staticsafe wrote: >> "also, good luck with subfolders under inbox." >> >> What exactly is the problem? > > there is a known quirk with mozilla's thunderbird email client involving > an email account's Inbox that has sub-folders. > > due to high email traffic that goes thru Inbox, there is a possibility > of the Inbox _email_file_ becoming corrupt. > OK, now I'm worried. > the cause of this happening can be for various reasons. the main cause, > i believe, is from auto compact being enabled and new emails arriving > when thunderbird is trying to do maintenance on file for emails that have > been moved elsewhere by filter action. I don't think I enabled auto-compact manually, I don't know if its enabled by default, time to find out I guess. > > another problem that can happen and mozilla does recognize it, if you > keep a lot of old emails in Inbox, there is a possibility of file > becoming corrupt. mozilla recommends that Inbox be maintained with as > few emails as possible. i recommend to _keep_it_cleaned_-_period_. This one I got covered, I maintain an "inbox zero" policy with all my accounts, mails are filtered directly without ever seeing my "INBOX" folder. > > there is a condition in the filter 'match' setting called > > ( ) Match all messages > > which i use as last filter of each email account to move emails to > folder 'Local Folders/all-other'. i have considered adding sub-folders > to it, but my filtering is extensive enough that i seldom have any > emails hit 'all-other'. > > in your case, you could add sub-folders with name of you email accounts. > that is up to you. what ever makes things simple to maintain is the > main goal. > > there have been a number of posters on the 'support thunderbird list' > complaining about an account having a corrupted Inbox. > > there have been many suggestions for a cure made. the one that works > is to move *all* Inbox sub-folders out from under Inbox folder. they > can be moved anywhere and i recommend they be moved to a place below > the 'Local Folders' folder. cure rate by doing so is 100% > > there is/was a page on one of non mozilla owned mozilla support sites > that recommends no sub-folder and it gave same reasons i found to be. > i thought i had bookmarked site, but i have yet to find it. it does > not shown up with a google search. > > so, now you know what i meant in wishing you good luck. > > also, understand this, you may not have a problem now, your setup > could go on forever. then again, it might hit you. > > consider what and how much you have to lose vs the short time spent > in dragging folders to a new location. > > when you drag and drop folders to a new position, thunderbird's filter > routine will rewrite your filters to show new position so you do not > have to rewrite any filter rules. This is the thing, I don't use Thunderbird's filter system at all. All my filtering is done server side by a Dovecot plugin called Sieve as I mentioned. This is useful as I use Thunderbird on multiple devices and OSes and I don't have to bother to keep my filters in sync. Also I get to write filters in my favourite editor which is great too. :) So my situation is - Thunderbird doesn't see any "filtering", as far its concerned, messages just randomly appear in folders. :) I am not too worried about losing e-mails due to corruption as this is essentially my mailing list e-mail and most if not all of them are publicly archived. :) > > now you can see, and i hope understand, why i did not want to reply to > your question in thread i started. if a fedora, or any other user ran > a search with "Subject: folders under Inbox", they would never find > what they were looking for. > > there are enough answers to problems out there that are no where related > to "Subject:" line. i did not see advantage of adding another and hiding > a solution. > > i do hope this helps you make decision to move folders. > ___ > > congratulations for your choice of wording in "Subject:". > > tho next time, i would recommend "ping: geleem". i have a filer for > that. (GBWG) Noted. Thanks for your elaboration. > > Opa. Metaxa. > > -- staticsafe O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org Please don't top post - http://goo.gl/YrmAb -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
