On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 18:31:23 +0200 Ricardo Mones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:03:03 +0000 > Debian BTS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Package: claws-mail > > Version: 2.9.2-1+b1 > > Severity: important > > > > I use claws-mail on two machines: my desktop and a notebook. I keep > > my user-directory synchronized when moving from one machine to the > > other with the unison-gtk package. With the current version of > > claws-mail, every time I change machines, the messages in Inbox > > lose all "color label" information, and all read/unread status (all > > messages show as "unread"). > > > > I have quite a large inbox, and losing track of which messages are > > read/unread is somewhat of a serious issue. For me, losing the > > ability to color-code messages is also a significant degradation. > > > > I recently upgraded from sylpheed, and vanilla sylpheed/unison-gtk > > handle synchronization just fine. > > > > Note that the Inbox is not the only mail folder affected, it is > > just where I feel the most pain. > > Which directory is the 'user directory' you're referring to? your > $HOME? $HOME/.claws-mail? $HOME/Mail (or equivalent)? > Are you syncing .* files in that dir? $HOME, all of it. unison syncs everything that isn't specifically excluded, so all .* files are being synced. I have been doing this for years, unison has worked really well for me up until this moment. > Are you preserving timestamps when syncing? Good question. unison docs are kind of murky on the subject, but this experiment in my ~/Mail/inbox/ would indicate timestamps are being preserved: Before sync: -rw-r--r-- 1 ckoen ckoen 10 2007-07-03 22:41 .mh_sequences -rw------- 1 ckoen ckoen 21166 2007-06-23 19:19 .sylpheed_cache -rw------- 1 ckoen ckoen 20522 2007-07-03 22:41 .sylpheed_claws_cache -rw------- 1 ckoen ckoen 556 2007-07-03 22:41 .sylpheed_mark -rwx------ 1 ckoen ckoen 5000 2006-09-03 14:58 .xmhcache After sync: -rw-r--r-- 1 ckoen ckoen 24 2007-07-04 14:53 .mh_sequences -rw------- 1 ckoen ckoen 21166 2007-06-23 19:19 .sylpheed_cache -rw------- 1 ckoen ckoen 20493 2007-07-04 14:53 .sylpheed_claws_cache -rw------- 1 ckoen ckoen 556 2007-07-04 14:53 .sylpheed_mark -rwx------ 1 ckoen ckoen 5000 2006-09-03 14:58 .xmhcache (I shut down claws-mail just before 15:00....) BTW, I have been thinking that this should really be considered a data loss kind of bug. I have a couple of large mail folders where the color coding was quite important to me. I did not discover that syncing was going to blow away all my color coding until my first sync quite some number of days after installing claws-mail. At this point the only way to maybe get my color coding back is to restore from my last backup, which of course puts intervening e-mails at risk of loss. Or revert to sylpheed and a backup from about that era, which puts even more e-mails at risk. Clayton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
