[haiku-development] Re: Where's the magic with Mail's sigs?

  • From: "Humdinger" <humdingerb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:53:54 +0100

-- Axel Dörfler, on Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:58:40 +0100:
> Mail finds its signatures via queries - that's a completely dumb 
> usage 
> of queries, but it's the way it works right now (alongside the Mail 
> status).
> Since it only creates these indexes upon start, they aren't there if 
> you didn't ever start it before copying those files.
> The indexes are called _signature and _status, and you can just use 
> reindex to solve your problem.

OK. I see. Or I'll copy the backupped sigs over after Mail was started.
Thanks.

> I think we should just fix Mail to not use queries in this case.

I agree. :)
I'll file an enhancement ticket for that. There are a few small bugs 
concerning Mail, maybe a newcomming dev looks for a little task... :)

Regards,
Humdinger

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