Anno domini 2019 Sun, 15 Dec 10:14:38 -0500
 Gene Heskett scripsit:
> On Sunday 15 December 2019 06:32:56 deloptes wrote:
> 
> > Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > But, I don't think it helped. Its still hammering away, but hasn't
> > > updated an index file in over 20 minutes. �I may as well send this
> > > and go catch up on my sleep.
> >
> > Just found in the configuration options of KMail under (perhaps
> > "Others") there is "Enable full text indexing". Is it checked for you
> > by chance?
> >
> > What happens if unchecked?
> >
> It stops instantly. THANK YOU VERY VERY MUCH, deloptes. I owe you a hand 
> cooler or 2 but you'll have to come and get it cuz I've no clue where to 
> send it. I am in North Central WV, USA.
> 
> I don't recall checking it.  Presumably this should make message 
> searching faster? Next Q of course is when will it self check itself 
> again?
> 
> This is slightly reminiscent of the sticky buttons at the upper right of 
> the composer's screen. The entries they are supposed to lock are still 
> subject to random editing that I don't do, so I sometimes have to go 
> look thru the whole MaryAnn and move my sent-mail back to the sent-mail 
> folder.  Or restore some other setting that S/B set and forget. Last 
> week it was go get about 10 days worth of sent-mail from this lists 
> folder.  Anything in that 4 line header is apparently subject to being 
> randomly set to anything in its menu without a specific action from me. 
> And the "sticky" buttons are indeed checked. Makes me compare their 
> effectiveness to the appendages on a boar hogs belly,.. Despite being 
> checked, I can select and set them, all 4 of them from the multiselector 
> menu with a left click anyplace on that line.
> 
> Can a bug be filed on that? Composer "sticky" buttons don't work?
> 
> Thanks again deloptes, I do believe that was it.  Does the handbook 
> mention this? Theres a fairly long list that I've not collated over the 
> last 20 years. Most glaring is its inability to go get new mail in the 
> background, which caused me to offload that to fetchmail-procmail and a 
> chain of spam and viri catchers. All synchronized by inotifywait.
> I used to yell at Ingo K. over some of the more glaring ones till I 
> figured our he was attempting to herd cats. And wasn't that good at 
> it. ;-)
>  
> Cheers, Gene Heskett


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