sylpheed-gtk2 updated to 0.9.11 today (PROBLEM!)

[Adam McLaurin]

On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 19:01:29 -0400
Randy Pratt <rpratt1950 at earthlink.net> wrote:

> I had a similar thing happen.  I'll almost bet that you had 
> sylpheed running while doing portupgrade.  I'll also go a bit
> further and bet that the ONE mail that didn't disappear was the
> one that you were last looking at in the mail box where they
> "vanished".

Actually you're quite wrong here. I purposely closed sylpheed while
running portupgrade, and the ONE mail that didn't disappear hadn't been
looked at for months (not to mention I lost mails in two different
folder).


> I don't think you lost any mail. 

Fortunately you are correct here. I downgraded my sylpheed back to the
previous version, and immediately when I opened those two folders, all
the mails re-appeared. Also, the older sylpheed doesn't have any issues
reading the headers for the mails in those folders.


> This made me add another check step to my portupgrade procedures.
> I check the list of ports to be upgraded and if any of them are
> currently running, I shut them down before updating.  Its probably
> not necessary in all cases but this is now what I do.

This has been common practice in my world for years ...

Thanks,
Adam