Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder2.enfer-du-nord.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: John H Meyers Newsgroups: comp.mail.eudora.mac Subject: Re: How does Eudora remember (or forget) for autofill? Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:47:05 -0500 Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4EA03469.8070406@nomail.invalid> References: <4e972078$0$1655$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net> <1k93hla.16mr6ont6zt0N%dcohenspam@talktalk.net> <4E9952F4.9080107@nomail.invalid> <4E995647.70600@nomail.invalid> <4e9bc6de$0$1679$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net> <4e9c661d$0$1648$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net> <1k9dk3s.yw84w19e9iu8N%kmorgan@spamcop.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net sV9qddaM5IJ9VqQTNrgatQ7hmqjCmM+WKq2oHGEUn+6d7dIIGa Cancel-Lock: sha1:DKG8tncJA6qSk3hNoP0QOpi+h0g= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.23) Gecko/20110920 Thunderbird/3.1.15 In-Reply-To: Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.mail.eudora.mac:434 On 10/20/2011 8:18 AM, Martin-S wrote: > [Rebuilding the Settings file] will completely wipe all IMAP accounts. What does "completely wipe" mean, and how does this come about? The "essential" information for each "personality" (which I equate with "account") is a small set of parameters per server, and I've forgotten at this moment how and where it is stored, but the essential problem with storing info for each personality is how to maintain an open-ended way of accommodating very many different personalities that are each identified by a user-chosen name ("Dominant" is the only hard-coded "personality" name). Certainly the "cached" local IMAP information (about messages and mailboxes) is disposable, because it can be regenerated, which is also how other clients that have never yet connected to a given IMAP server get that information in the first place, given that every new client starts out "wiped" to begin with, yet soon knows what any other, independent clients know about the mail that's stored on the server. --