Re: Removal of all messages from a certain account ? / application feedback / search results / bugs^H^H^H^Hanoyances. . .

Hi Dave,

On May 26, 2004, at 09:51, dave johnson wrote:

> [email protected] wrote:
>>
>>> I am not sure why but Zoe attempts to load not only mbox files, but
>>> also ANY file accessible from the root base of an IMAP account.
>>
>> The question is rather why does your (UW-?) IMAP server let you browse
>> your entire network?
>
> it doesn't.  i just so happen to have a very large development 
> project.  i suspect having large
> amounts of data in a users home directory that are not emails cannot 
> be uncommon.

Right. The question is why does your IMAP server vends them? Is UW-IMAP 
a file browser?

> by your good guess on the server (UW 2002d-2), i suspect many (every 
> ?) new Zoe user is ignorant to
> it's blasé treatment of UW imap servers ?  perhaps changing the "eg 
> mail.mac.com" example in the
> setup screen to "eg. mail.mac.com/imap_root/" would save the few of us 
> relatively tech savvy people
> from having heart attacks while excitedly playing with their new toy ?

Perhaps.

> usually once per day all messages will disaapear from the interface 
> without notification (performing
> some background maintenance ?) then will return later (usually after a 
> 1/2-hr or so.)  Another
> similar issue is that once every coulpe of days all messages, 
> contributors, lists, attachments, and
> links for "Zoe:Timeline:Today" will show exactly 19 days earlier than 
> the current day.  Similarly,
> it will return to normal after 1/2-hr or so.  Absolutely no rhyme or 
> reason to it, or so it seems.
> the "reboot windows" *ahem* i mean "rebuild indexes" seems to 
> accomplish nothing more than wasting
> 5hrs of computing time rather than changing the frequency of these 
> behaviors :)

Wow... the application seems to develop some peculiar semiotic 
abilities... Any exceptions? Logs? Anything beside consistently random 
behavior? A sliver of additional informations?

Thanks :)

R.


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