Re: Prototype 50c Released!

Hi Chris!

Well, what else should I add... Yes! You're the most unsatisfied and
helpful person with this release! Yes! Scheduling big releases for Friday
evening is a big mistake I agree, huh, Java, aaaah, no!, but as they
say... "shoshaku jushaku", "one mistake after another" or "one continuous
mistake", that's what the life is all about. :-) Mistake made. Sorry.

> And I received a message from the Yosucker Olympics Team with a Subject
> of:
> 
> %40B%40BULK Folder Diggest
> 
> that contains ,just as promised, summary information of what's in the
> Bulk mailbox. I have no idea what %40 is, presumably some sort of
> bolding or underlighting or some such but it's not important.
Hah! Good! The %40B%40 is clearly a mistake here, I'll check it out. It's 
nothing like "bolding or underlighting" but the Yahoo's internal name for 
the Bulk folder (yes, the Bulk folder has unlike the other folders a 
special internal name)... I'll fix that, the functionality should not be 
affected as you said. A little cosmetics flaw...

The whole problem with the Bulk digest testing is the fact that my Bulk 
folder has been for some bizarre reason completely empty in the last few 
weeks... It's a special folder, so you can't copy messages to it 
manually. And... It's hard to test a feature, when there's nothing to test 
it on... That's why I released prototype 50. (I warned you!;-) So... 
Thanks for helping me out with the debuging...

> But...
> 
> BULK=0        # Do NOT trash the BULK messages automatically.
> 
> Seems to have no effect, look at that second to last line:
> 
> -> Moving to Trash... Done.
> 
> And thus it has... all dem dar "junk" messages were rather
> uncermoniously trashed. Do I have something misconfigured or should I be
> expecting a pr50d soon?
Well, although you're mostly right with your criticism, I must partly 
disagree here... The configuration file states this:

# Empty trash when logout?
# 1 (Yes) / 0 (No!)
TRASH=0

# Empty bulk folder when logout?
# 1 (Yes) / 0 (No!)
BULK=0

Empty trash! Empty bulk folder! That is... translated to normal user 
action, click on that link saying [Empty] next to the Trash or Bulk folder 
on your Yahoo web interface. The moving to trash thing is about moving the 
messages to the trash, but not about emptying the trash itself... In other 
words the messages stay on the server. 

So... There is no programming bug in YoSucker in this case. What is more 
interesting here is the logical part... Maybe we have a "logical bug" 
here?! I'll think about it... But perhaps it's a good idea to ignore the 
LEAVE=0 parameter in case YoSucker works in the DIGEST mode... Hmmm. 
Let it be so... What do you think?! Like that messages in DIGEST mode 
always stay on the server and you can fetch their titles... You can then 
decide whether you want to fetch them using the BOX method or don't fetch 
them at all in which case you simply Empty the Bulk, by BULK=1... Hm, that 
would perhaps make more sense...

Well, thanks again for your feedback, I hope the next release will be, 
from a big part thanks to you, a normal release, that is nothing like 50e 
but the Prototype 51.

Take care, Chris. Enjoy the late autumn sun!

Vlad
-z3r0-



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