Re: Evolution: A warning about mbox data corruptions

2012-10-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-10-18 at 18:18 +0200, lee wrote: > Christoph Anton Mitterer writes: > > > This is intended as a warning on all users of the Evolution MUA that it > > contains a bug since years that leads to irrecoverably corruptions on > > any "From_" lines in mails. > > Using mbox to store mails s

Re: Evolution: A warning about mbox data corruptions

2012-10-18 Thread lee
Christoph Anton Mitterer writes: > This is intended as a warning on all users of the Evolution MUA that it > contains a bug since years that leads to irrecoverably corruptions on > any "From_" lines in mails. Using mbox to store mails seems prone to corruption by design, not to mention other dis

Re: Evolution: A warning about mbox data corruptions

2012-10-17 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Wed, 2012-10-17 at 14:49 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > The only data losses I experienced > were not too dramatically and caused by bad hardware or by myself > *knocking on wood*. Good luck > Fortunately you didn't lost your mails, "just" some > might be really unreadable, regarding to the broke

Re: Evolution: A warning about mbox data corruptions

2012-10-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-10-17 at 13:11 +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Moreover, this fits so perfectly in the general philosophy problems > GNOME and especially also Evolution have... these guys really need to > be slapped IMHO to wake up and reconsider their way of doing things I switched from GNO

Re: Evolution: A warning about mbox data corruptions

2012-10-17 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Wed, 2012-10-17 at 05:59 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > You didn't notice this yourself in recent years and you're aware of the > GNU General Public License's disclaimer of warranty ;). > > Don't get me wrong, I would be pissed off too. Yeah I know... guess I came down a bit over the night. I fu

Re: Evolution: A warning about mbox data corruptions

2012-10-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
You didn't notice this yourself in recent years and you're aware of the GNU General Public License's disclaimer of warranty ;). Don't get me wrong, I would be pissed off too. Regards, Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Evolution: A warning about mbox data corruptions

2012-10-16 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. This is intended as a warning on all users of the Evolution MUA that it contains a bug since years that leads to irrecoverably corruptions on any "From_" lines in mails. I've opened a bug[0] in the BTS whith some information and a link to the upstream bug report (and warnings about my very ru