Hi Brad, Thanks for your suggestions. In the meantime, I discovered a way to do what I wanted. It's not a very elegant solution but workable. See below.
On Fri, 4 Nov 2016 10:52:03 +0000 Brad Rogers <b...@fineby.me.uk> wrote: >On Thu, 3 Nov 2016 17:27:48 -0500 >sunr...@mailbug.com wrote: > >Hello sunr...@mailbug.com, > >>So my question is: Is there any way to force Claws Mail to retrieve a >>specific message that has not been completely downloaded? Or how does >>the Claws Mail GUI normally mark a message for download when the >>aforementioned button is clicked? > >The button you mentioned is the only way I know of to initiate a large >message download. The file ~/.claws-mail/uidl/ACCOUNT_NAME seems to contain a list of the messages on the server in a format like this: 73201611040634573945 1478266525 0 73201611040655166135 1478266525 0 73201611040908557347 1478266525 0 73201611040941040644 1478268386 0 The last field usually contains a 0 or 1 (I'm assuming '0' might mean 'retrieved' and '1' might mean 'not fully retrieved'). But if the 'Mark for Download' button is activated, the entry for that message changes to something like: 73201611040941040644 1478268386 #mh/path/to/inbox:2180 where 2180 is the filename assigned by claws mail for that message. (I use maildir format.) Knowing this, I can now manually edit the entry with the correct parameters and claws mail retrieves the entire message without a hitch, at least it did for the one I tried it on. This would be somewhat awkward if I'd need to do it every day, but it works for getting me out of an occasional pickle. > >You'll probably get a better response on the Claws Mail mailing list. >us...@lists.claws-mail.org >They're likely to ask are whether this happens with only one mail >provider (assuming you have more than one). They'll also almost Am using only one mail provider. >certainly mention that v3.9 is quite old, and that an upgrade might be >in order. Not that that would help with this specific problem, AFAIAA. Thanks again! Jason
