Re: SeaMonkey/2.19 on Linux nuked all messages in InBox and ALL folders underneath
In fact, there is a different explanation for the mark as deleted approach. Depending on how it's handled, it can even make the undeletion explanation untenable. The point of "mark as deleted" was, at least originally, a matter of *SPEED*. MS-DOS would mark a file as deleted in the directory, as well as marking the space occupied by the file as free in the FAT tables, rather than taking the time to actually over-write the empty spaces immediately. When a new file was created in that subdirectory, after a reboot, the system would scan the subdirectory file and use the first directory entry marked as deleted for the new file directory entry. Likewise, the FAT table would be scanned for placed marked empty - whether they'd ever been written to, or not. This is why, over time, a defragmentation process was a good thing - it reduced the fragmentation caused by this process, allowing files to be read faster with less head movement. Likewise, in the MBOX format that many if not most mail programs use, simply marking an e-mail as deleted is much faster than the complete re-writing of the file that would be necessary for full deletion. That it allows for undeletion is a happy accident, it was not the design goal. Compaction allows for the multiple re-writes of the entire MBOX file to be done as one long re-write, skipping over e-mails marked deleted. This is even seen in database engines with fixed-size records - mark a record deleted, and when it's time to insert a new record, use the space from an old deleted record to store the new one. -- Jamey <--<@ ja...@beau.org ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: "freelance writer" in message body
Ray_Net wrote: I did not know how the word "freelance writer" can be a spam ... normally a spam is someone that propose his services or products ? non ? "Spam" has come to mean more than simply unsolicited commercial e-mail. Soldiers even talk of spamming bullets at the enemy - just firing off blindly to encourage the enemy to keep their head down. Since they're always the exact same words, I'm suspecting the real message is buried in the headers - perhaps the message ID. This could be a covert method of passing messages used by intelligence agencies, or command-and-control for a botnet, or any one of a number of other possibilities. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: JavaScript
Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: chokito wrote: In SeaMonkey 2.4 will "javascript:self.resizeTo(1600,1000);self.moveTo(40,10);" doesn't function. That size appears to me to be a full-screen resolution. If you really like such big windows, why don't you just press F11 while in the browser? Instant full-screen! Because not all of us have such small screens. Such size gives me room to have other windows peeking out the ride for easy raising by clicking. 1920x1200 - it's getting cheaper every day. Check your local Wal-Mart's HDTV section. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Send link feature in SM2.0.x
Keith Whaley wrote: Question: Thruout the following post, URL is repeatedly shown as 'URI' or some such. The L in URL stands for Locator, and I'm wondering why all acronyms in here show up as 'URI', even in the RFC quote. URLs are a subset of URIs - Uniform Resource Identifiers. Computer Scientists and Library/Information Science Majors work with URIs - everyone else is just having enough trouble coping with URLs. Call it a University vs. Vo-Tech thing. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Arranging the messages in a folder into a specific order?
W3BNR wrote: On 3/5/2011 12:46 AM Rostyslaw Lewyckyj wrote: Philip Chee wrote: On Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:11:33 -0500, Rostyslaw Lewyckyj wrote: Is there any way to sequence the messages in a folder in a particular order. The only way that I have been able to come up with is to move them, one at a time, individually, into a new folder. ??? I have found a need for this, if I need to process a group of messages outside of SM. e.g.: to decode a media file downloaded in parts. Tag them and sort on the tags column. Phil So, how do I tag messages which when I look at the folder, sorted by order received are in the order: 1,10,11,12,2,3,4,9,8,7,6,5 to be in a folder, in the order : 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 So that I can decode the collection? A while back a friend who was doing just that on binary news groups had a program that would put all the msgs in order, strip the un-needed parts of the msgs, put the uucoded sections in order and decode. I don't remember the program's name, but I'm sure you could come up with it by searching with Google, Ask, or whatever. uudecode or uudeview are examples of the program you're looking for - the latter much better at it than the former. Oh, and the original list looks sorted lexically, not numerically, so a solution on that is to left-pad the numbers with zeros to the appropriate number of places - eg. 01, 10, 11, 12, 02, 03, 04, 09, 08, 07, 06, 05 ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Is Seamonkey defunct?
Jane_Galt wrote: I was looking at the stats for my small business website and only about 2.5% of visits come from people using SM. I don't know about you, but I can't afford to turn away 2.5% of my potential customers. Things are just too tight these days. Especially as it's not so much a matter of having to code a special version just for Seamonkey, as *NOT* using the functions that have to be adjusted to be "just so" for different browsers. Website designers need to get over the desire to control each and every damn pixel on the screen - they don't know what window size will eventually be viewing the page, what theme will be decorating that window, nor on what size monitor that window will be being displayed. If they want pixel-perfect control of what the user sees - they should ship a bleepin' bitmap graphic with a map to implement linking. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Seamonkey Add-on needed
hawker wrote: Use Image Zoom. Works great (less filling). Mouse over and use scroll wheel to zoom http://imagezoom.yellowgorilla.net/ One *MIGHT* note that not all people, especially some on laptops, have the luxury of your silly scroll wheel. Heck, you can't even really guarantee your users have two mouse buttons - or even that they have a mouse. I've had a few times when I was kind of desperately searching the web for how the to get a mouse working. Fortunately, I come from a by-gone era when using the keyboard to do work was considered reasonable. These days, I'm wondering why they bother shipping them to most people, as most people's typing speed would be much improved if they just had an on-screen keyboard to click on with their mouse. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
