I suppose catchphrases like "with enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" and "the source code is the documentation" are particularly unwelcome right now?
Well, there's really just one "Why…?" standing in my way now I've discovered that Thunderbird was good enough to leave me my original Old_Messages directory, untouched and intact, after it made an archive it should've known it would be unable to read.
Why is the server so unbelievably, cerebellum-ossifyingly slow? Click on a message, either in Webmail or in Tbird, and it'll sit there "loading" for 90 seconds at least. Move a message-one message!-from one directory to another, and it'll have to think about it for a few minutes. WTF?!!!
I've tried several times to use Thunderbird and it never behaved the way I wanted. Duplicating messages was one of those things I just couldn't stand after a while. It also couldn't cope with gmail back then (it probably does now) and that's what we use for work. So I just gave up and started doing most of that stuff using the web interface instead.
Nothing with an interface to the actual mail folders-not Tbird, not Webmail, not nothin'-would consent to delete that giant botched 2011 archive. I went round the back in the web interface and nuked it via a folder subscribe/unsubscribe page. Then, following a comment by quirkstreet, I SSH'd into the account and tried pine. No such command. Tried alpine, which dutifully launched and ran. Now I am well on my way to cleaning up the mess and moving a bunch of old email off the server and onto my local disk. Yay for (al)pine!
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Why is the server so unbelievably, cerebellum-ossifyingly slow? Click on a message, either in Webmail or in Tbird, and it'll sit there "loading" for 90 seconds at least. Move a message-one message!-from one directory to another, and it'll have to think about it for a few minutes. WTF?!!!
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