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   Message 219 of 2,396   
   mark lewis to Wilfred van Velzen   
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   23 Apr 14 21:11:22   
   
   On Wed, 23 Apr 2014, Wilfred van Velzen wrote to mark lewis:   
      
    WvV>> I never heard of such a case, but I don't think many people use    
    WvV>> fastecho concurrently with fmail on the same message base. ;)   
      
    ml> i don't thing concurrencey has anything to do with it... more like    
    ml> JAM bases created and maintained with FE for years being switched    
    ml> to FMail with FE no longer in the picture...   
      
    WvV> That's what I mean. Not exactly at the same time...   
      
   understood... but my clarification was "not at all"... only one, period...   
   namely, starting with FE managed JAM bases and then switching completely to   
   FMail managed JAM bases using the existing one...   
      
    WvV>> But to be able to do anything with this, I will have to reproduce   
    WvV>> it, which means   
      
    ml> one should only need to set up FE, toss messages to JAM bases with    
    ml> FE, then after some time, switch to using FMail for those bases...    
    ml> it might take a while if the problem only appears after bases are    
    ml> over a certain size...   
      
    WvV> I will spend my time on more pressing matters. Although valid, I    
    WvV> don't think this use case has a high chance of occuring too    
    WvV> often... ;)   
      
   we don't know and we don't (yet) have any clue as to why it happened... with   
   my live archivial (3 years retention) setup, i definitely would not want to   
   switch my main system from FE to FMail if it meant losing 3 years of posts...   
      
   )\/(ark   
      
   One of the great tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a   
   gang of brutal facts. --Benjamin Franklin   
      
   --- FMail/Win32 1.60   
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