On Tuesday 10 December 2019 14:47:12 deloptes wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > Well, since this is kmail 1.9, mostly written in 32 bit days, and > > moving about half of the debian list to an out of kmail directory, > > the problem has not re-surfaced, so I am more than ever convinced > > its triggered by a 32 bit overflow someplace. > > > > Where, I've no clue, but I suspect a concerted effort to bring it > > into the 64 bit world would pay stability dividends over the next > > several years. > > Might be - who knows - I looked over it - to understand, one needs the > design document or some time to understand how kmail is working. As it > is not a simple application the time needed is also not an hour or > two. I'm very well aware of that deloptes, having done it for important but broken code as published for a much simpler 6809 based platform in a previous life, and the student in question probably got an A from his imbecile prof! Probably at least a month or more to begin to understand it. My thinker was then 35 years younger too, and noticeably more agile at "getting into someone else's head" than it would be today. But kmail wasn't written by anything but a committee of volunteers loosely herded (think cats) by Ingo Klocker, so there are probably in excess of 10 brains you've got to learn to think like in that code. Not a task that I at 85 want to touch with a good length of dry fiberglass pole. The fact that its stood on top of the hill for email agents as long as it has, says quite a bit for it in spite of the picky little problems we're having with it now. FWIW, I've used it since I built RH5.0 in about '98. And since around 2003 I have always installed to a new drive, and copied the corpus over from the old drive, which is part of how I now have such a huge corpus of email. And drives with north of 200,000 spinning hours on them. > However when you look at the properties of one directory - there is > the option to enable/disable indexing. Have you seen this? > No. KMail says its 1.9.10, from r14.0.6. Where do you find that option? Thanks deloptes. > If your archive is not changing I guess also indexing is not needed > there, but not sure. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional > commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read > list messages on the web archive: > http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to > top-post: > http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
