> Worked like a charm, thanks.
Cool! I was losing my copy of sent posts (from pan.sent) for some
time, due
to corruption. Deleting the folder (file at that time, see below)
fixed the
problem. I wish I had known about that earlier, as it was an easy
fix.
> BTW, is it natural for me to have both of these:
>
> % ls -lu .pan/data/folders/pan.sent.mbox
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 bdbryant bdbryant 5597753 Apr 14 22:17
> .pan/data/folders/pan.sent.mbox
>
> % ls -lud .pan/data/messages/folders/pan.sent
> drwx------ 2 bdbryant bdbryant 69632 Apr 16 00:32
> .pan/data/messages/folders/pan.sent
The mbox format one is old. PAN recently switched to maildir, which
is IMO
preferable. (The downside is the same as with all schemes that have
large
numbers of small files -- it wastes space on file systems not
designed to
pack files. ext2/3 for instance uses 1K blocks, IIRC, meaning a file
takes
1k disk space even if it's a single character. Packed filesystems
such as
the reiserfs I chose to use don't have this problem. The upside is
potentially better stability, and less loss of data if one message
out of
several thousand in the folder is corrupt, as they are individual
files.
With a folder such as send.later, however, and since you didn't say
there was
anything there you needed to keep, just deleting the entire dir is
easier, so
that's what I said to do.)
IOW, it should be safe to delete the mbox file. It should have been
done upon
conversion, I think, but perhaps a conversion bug screwed it.
Actually,
that's what pushed me into investigating the folders, so I could
answer as I
did your earlier question, but since my mbox was corrupt, the
converted
maildir was as well, and I was getting PAN crashes because of it, in
the
first beta after the conversion. Deleting the corruption fixed the
crashes,
tho I'd been experiencing earlier oddness just as you had been, due
to the
earlier corruption that the conversion compounded into a crashing
scenario.