Jack Dodds

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For what it is worth - as of today 2019-07-18, which is 3 days past the deadline advertised by Google - I am still able to sign on and download...

Hi @zencomplex. It appears that it is still possible to use GMail. Google has made it difficult and frightening for the non-technical user to set up, but it was possible...

I have heard a report of Mailpile's GMail "app password" access suddenly failing (comments @JazzTp ?). It would be interesting to know if this is a permanent failure or if...

At present, keys are imported only when the user composes an email to a user. The user has to click on a `Find Encryption Keys` or `Show Encryption Keys` button...

Thanks for the comments @JocelynDelalande. I can't figure out what could cause this problem. But, I've added some code to `search.py` which will do a `traceback.print_stack() `when an entry is...

Bingo! The problem occurred again (actually on 2021-03-23 but I've only now had time to look at the results). I had added code to do a traceback when a metadata...

Update: This problem occurred again on 2021-04-16. There were about 16554 metadata index lines having a snippet but no message location. Unfortunately, due to an error in my traceback code,...

Update: The problem occurred again on 2021-06-03. Once again I shut down, saved the homedir, restarted and ran `rescan all` which appeared to recover all the emails (though have not...

Update: I inserted a statement at line 557 of search.py so that the code that deletes message location pointers is skipped if the `mbox` is zero length (which can't be...

(Almost a year later.) The above mentioned patch appears to prevent the wholesale deletion of message pointers so that emails are not lost. But it also appears to prevent messages...