Thunderbird Slayer !

David J Patrick davidjpatrick-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org
Sat Apr 30 18:06:59 UTC 2005


Patrick Allen wrote:

>
> Sorry for the formatting of this email.  The only way I could retrieve
> it this morning was to open up the raw text file containing all the TLUG
> emails.
>
> I deleted the folder last night...not noticing that I had actually only
> put it into the Trash folder.  

The "fix" is to delete those messages with dupe IDs, specifically those
sent from the Thunderbird Slayer (peter) with ID
"6d79206c6974746c-aAzQ54TRRcg11FJ3OCGpZIeKlevqwCZs at public.gmane.org" , by hand, using vi (or whatever
your trusty text editor happens to be)

In my case the process was
make a copy of your Inbox (Inbox.borked) in case you screw up.
$ vi /home/djp/Mail    (this is a soft link, your path will vary) 
/Local\ Folders/Inbox
/ 6d79206c6974746c-aAzQ54TRRcg11FJ3OCGpZIeKlevqwCZs at public.gmane.org   (find the ID
move the cursor to the top pf the message, hit "V" to enter Visual mode,
cursor down to the end of the message (say goodbye to the bogofilter
thread) and hit "d" to delete the block. wash, rinse,repeat until the
"string not found"
:wq


> Even though I was told they would no
> longer be active upon folder deletion, my TLUG mail was filtered
> directly into the Trash this morning.   :P

Harsh !

>
> I'm overdue for the big "update" on this box anyway.

It ain't gonna help ya brother ! The latest bird can be bagged with this
one.

> But I'm curious about what's happened here.  I'm going through the
> submitted bugs at bugzilla.  But I haven't seen this one yet.

The Thunderbird Slayer reports the bugs existence.

>
> This is a bit of a n00b question; But is there a way I could track
> down which process specifically is causing the problem?

Start a terminal, type "top"
use "<" and ">" to move the active column to CPU
use "h" to learn how top works
djp
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