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Re: [LUG] Icedove and mails older than 1 month [SOLVED]

 

Keith Abraham wrote:
> Grant Sewell wrote:
>> Keith Abraham wrote:
>>> Grant Sewell wrote:
>>>   
>>>> Keith Abraham wrote:
>>>>     
>>>>> All my Icedove folders only show mails less than 1 month old.
>>>>>
>>>>> It isn't that the older mails are missing, they aren't as I can
>>>>> view them with a text editor. Nor are any user message filters
>>>>> preventing them from being displayed.
>>>>>
>>>>> I seems just as if some display preference has been set at
>>>>> 30 days, but if there is one I can't find it. I'm probably
>>>>> missing something incredibly simple but can anyone tell me
>>>>> how to show these older mails?
>>>>>
>>>>> Keith
>>>>>   
>>>>>       
>>>> Have you got your messages sorted by date and grouped?  On my 
>>>> Thunderbird setup here it then has a group called "old mail".
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     
>>> Grant:
>>> All mails are sorted by date - oldest to newest.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure what you mean by grouped. There is no folder
>>> called old mail on my system.
>>>
>>> Using message filters I organise incoming mails into named
>>> folders eg my-ISP, my-Village. The inbox folder is kept
>>> under control with another filter which deletes all mails
>>> which have not been moved into folders and are older that
>>> 30 days.
>>>
>>> Some of my folders contain mails which date back to the
>>> beginning of the year yet when I open the folder the mails
>>> aren't listed. All that is displayed are mails less than a
>>> month old. I know they exist because I can enter
>>> /.mozilla-thunderbird and view them with a text editor
>>>
>>> As I said in my earlier mail it's as if there was a
>>> blanket setting limiting the display of all mails to
>>> those under a month old.
>>>
>>> I've scoured the preferences to no avail. The solution
>>> probably lies in the config editor but I don't know what
>>> I'm looking for.
>>>
>>> Keith
>> Hi Keith,
>>
>> By "group", I mean this - go to a folder and click on the "view" menu; 
>> in the "sort by" submenu, check to see if "grouped by sort group" is ticked.
>>
> 
> Thanks Grant: I see what you mean but alas Old Mail doesn't show any mail
> older than a month whatever folder I look at.
> 
> But an idea occurs to me that the solution might lie in the method that 
> Icedove
> uses to define Old Mail. There might be a a variable dealing with Old 
> Mail that
> I can change in the config editor. I doubt it though. I can understand 
> limiting the
> display of mails to 1 month but displaying mails older than a month must be
> common enough to warrant an easily accessible toggle.
> 
> Any way I'll have a look in config editor later today.
> 
> Keith
> 
Grant:
I discovered the problem lies in the header of each mail older than a month.

All my mails older than a month have:-
X-Mozilla-Status: 0019

and I discovered that:-
X-Mozilla-Status: 0000 means the mail is unread
X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 means the mail is read

I've no idea what 0019 means but I gather from a brief gander at the
Thunderbird support archives that if the status isn't 0000 or 0001 then 
the mail
has been marked as deleted.

As I understand it mails can be marked as deleted but are not actually 
deleted
until they are placed in the trash bin. And I'm not one for throwing old 
stuff away!

Beats me why my mails should have been marked as status 0019 except that
Icedove was updated recently,

Anyway it's a trivial matter to reset the status to 0001 and all the old 
mails are
back.

Some are very old indeed and by a strange coincidence the very first 
mail in my
Sent folder is in reply to a certain GRANT SEWELL who, via DCLUG, was 
helping
me sort out a problem with X dated Wed Jan 14 20:16:25 2004.

When i next have some free time I try to find out what this 0019 status 
means and
do some heavy mail weeding!

Thanks for your help Grant

Keith




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