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Re: Which mail file to keep before a completely fresh install?

Subject: Re: Which mail file to keep before a completely fresh install?
From: Tim Altman <do.not@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:03:46 -0400
Newsgroups: opera.mac

On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:09:01 +0200, "P.J. Berg"
<BergRace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:33:24 +0200, Tim Altman <do.not@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  
>wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 07:10:13 +0200, "P.J.Berg"
>> <BergRace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> I managed to import the mail headers by pointing the importer to
>>> accounts.ini, but no bodies..(from backup of old Mail directory).
>>> I set up the newsgroups manually, and still no threaded view, and any
>>> period other than Forever hides all messages.
>>>
>>> I deleted all opera entries and made a perfectly clean install, the  
>>> tried
>>> the import function without creating any accounts, made a real mess of
>>> mail and news posts mixed.
>>>
>>> Then did it all over again with manually created accounts then various
>>> imports, still no mail bodies.
>>> I think I have reached the end of my patience.
>>>
>>> Opera is a nice and quick web browser, the mail and news clients needs
>>> serious work...  Back to Thunderbird for me, sigh.
>>
>> I'm sorry that you were unable to get it working.  If you're near
>> Oslo, I'll probably be there in August and we could meet so I could
>> take a look.
>
>Thank you for your kind offer.
>
>I'll be in Oslo all of August.
>This is however a stationary machine (Mac Mini), and I spend time on  
>Usenet everyday so the non-threaded issue cant wait very long.

OK.

>I have given up on the E-mail, and consider all but headings now lost.
>
>So all in all, I am left with three concerns:
>
>1.No Threaded views in the news client.
>2.No other "View Period" than "Forever" works in the News client.
>3.No proper way of transferring existing mail from one machine or install  
>to another.

When you manually created the accounts, had you previously deleted the
mail directory so the database file was removed?  I do not know why
the first two would occur if your database is not corrupt.

Transferring mail can either be done by copying the mail directory or
importing using the Opera 7/8/9 importer.

-- 
Tim Altman
Desktop QA
Opera Software
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