| Art Alexion on 3 Aug 2007 23:04:32 -0000 |
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On Sunday, 22 July 2007 22:48, jeff wrote: > As of a few days ago, Thunderbird won't display a message when I hit > enter. It doesn't seem to want to reply/forward/create or much of > anything else either. It *is* coming up and collecting mail, but I > can't read it. > > When I exit, the program leaves the screen but it's still running (per > ps aux). It does the same thing after I kill the processes and restart. > > I am unaware of adding or deleting anything that might affect this. > Machine is a Dell Latitude 820, Ubuntu 7.04, XFCE If you haven't fixed it yet, exit thunderbird and run the attached script. I haven't used thunderbird for a while (except for sending html mail when I have to), so I don't know if it still works, but it should unless thunderbird has undergone a radical revision to its index restructuring. Of course, you will have to rename the hard coded directories. It simply deletes the indexes, which have the extension, msf. Thunderbird will regenerate them when it restarts. Nothing fancy, but I used to have to do it a lot, and the script saved me the time in typing the commands. > > ------------------------------------------------- > > on a related note, I tend to read email from too many machines (via > POP). Right now I set one machine as master and the rest to leave > copies on the server. Is there an easier way to do this that would let > me delete mail I don't want from any computer? IMAP. See if your mail provider supports IMAP. With IMAP, all computers will access the same online mail folders, and any computer can manipulate them. If op.net does not support IMAP, you can forward the mail to a free service that does. Then just make sure you use your op.net address as a reply-to. You could also continue to use the op.net SMTP server. You would know better than me if the office mail system supports IMAP. > > Someone suggested IMAP but my provider doesn't offer it and I would > prefer not to set up a home server for this. Try forwarding to a free provider that does provide it. I do this with alexion.com. This address is 13 years old and used to be listed on web pages. It gets a lot of spam. I forward it to a free mail service that has decent server based spam filtering. This takes the load off of the local spamassassin and bogofilter. My mail client is set to use smtp.alexion.com for outgoing mail and the reply-to is set to the alexion.com address. You could try doing the same with IMAP. Off the top of my head, I don't know which free mail service provides IMAP. Perhaps someone else can suggest one. -- _____________________________________________________________ Art Alexion PGP fingerprint: 52A4 B10C AA73 096F A661 92D2 3B65 8EAC ACC5 BA7A Keyserver: hkp://subkeys.pgp.net The attachment - signature.asc - is my electronic signature; no need for alarm. Info @ http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/signature.asc.what.html _____________________________________________________________ echo deleting indexes from alexion.com folders... rm /home/arthur/.thunderbird/w0p0zil7.default/Mail/pop.alexion.com/*.msf echo deleting indexes from verizon.net folders... rm /home/arthur/.thunderbird/w0p0zil7.default/Mail/incoming.verizon.net/*.msf echo deleting indexes from gmail.com folders... rm /home/arthur/.thunderbird/w0p0zil7.default/Mail/pop.gmail.com/*.msf Attachment:
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