[sup-talk] problems with rubymail on an initial sup-add/sync

[Jimmy Tang]

Hi William,

Excerpts from William Morgan's message of Wed Sep 19 15:41:12 +0100 2007:
> Excerpts from Jimmy Tang's message of Wed Sep 19 05:36:16 -0700 2007:
> > [Wed Sep 19 13:32:59 +0100 2007] problem getting messages from mbox:///u1/trhpc/jtang/Mail/system.RequestTracker: For some bizarre reason, RubyMail was unable to parse this message.
> 
> Interesting. I've never seen that triggered, to date. Congratulations!
> Basically this means I asked RubyMail to parse the message, and RubyMail
> gave up. 
> 

not too sure whats wrong with that mail box, i eventually found the
offending mails and *cough* just deleted them *cough* they are just old
archives that I have that i wanted indexed.

> > is there anyway of turning on more debugging to see whats causing the
> > problem...?
> 
> Unfortunately no. The best I can offer is the following patch against
> 0.1, which will print out the message ids. You can then grep the mbox
> for those and see if there's anything weird about the messages. I'm
> guessing the MIME is screwed up in such a way that RubyMail chokes.
> 
> I'm interested in figuring out why this happens.

Thanks for the small patch, if i come across it again, i will save the
email and send it on to you to figure out whats broken. In hindsight I
should have kept some samples before deleting things.

on a slightly off topic on sup, i've eventually got sup working
relatively well with my archives of mail. and i quite like it :), I have
one question about the overall list of the inbox-box mode. Is there any
way of say doing an "all mails" mode? or is there a magic query that will
let me list *all* of my mails much like how gmail has the "all mails"
list where it shows "all mails except spam and trash" ?


Thanks,
Jimmy.

-- 
Jimmy Tang
Trinity Centre for High Performance Computing,
Lloyd Building, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland.
http://www.tchpc.tcd.ie/ | http://www.tchpc.tcd.ie/~jtang