William Reardon’s Blog

Argh.

After impetuously upgrading to Thunderbird 1.0, I came to quickly regret it.

Don’t get me wrong — I love Thunderbird. It took me a long time to accept a world other command-line mail clients. And no, I don’t mean pine. Pine is for pansies who can’t handle mm, rmail, mh, mh-e, or mutt, all of which are infinitely better than pine. But I digress.

Happy with the 0.9 release and apparently riding the euphoria of Firefox 1.0, I downloaded & started running Thunderbird 1.0. It seemed okay that night, but the next morning it began to refuse to download new mail. Eventually, it got to the point where it would download a single message, but then nothing more. Quit & restart, one new message. Quit & restart, another single new message. At that rate, hell, Outlook would be better. (Well, almost.)

I decided to rollback to 0.9 (which, for some reason, is extremely hard to find on the Thunderbird site). Not a lot of problems there, only that it decides it wants to re-POP my mail. All 12,938 messages.

Ouch.

Without much other choice, I let it slog away & set about figuring out how to best deduplicate each mailbox folder. I’d written a script a while ago, but decided to try a different method using formail. For reason’s I still haven’t figured it, it missed a few. The script was able to catch those formail missed, so in the end all good.

Still, what a waste of a few hours.

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