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Submitted by reeses on Thu, 2002-11-14 05:36.

Tonight I installed spaces, "Another Email/PIM software". I don't know why I do this (as I did with Zoe), but I always want to do a practical test using my email.

Bad, bad idea.

See, I don't have small message stores. The best I have is my astrogoth mail, which runs about 2 000 messages online, and about 30 000 messages archived. (in bzip2 MBOX files)

Work isn't better, with about 12 000 messages in various folders.

Anyway, first thing I do upon installing spaces, is import my work email (there's an Outlook dll bundled with the Java app, which is a bloody brilliant move) WHILE pulling down my home email via IMAP/S. After about ten minutes, a dialog came up, and when I looked at the console, I saw an Exception trace relating to a GB(mumble) code page issue.

Why didn't I preserve the exception? Because at that moment, my computer froze...hard. No mouse movement, no ctrl-alt-delete, even the Thinkpad "switch video output" hotkeys didn't work. The only thing I could do was brighten or dim my backlight!

Back to step one. I hard-rebooted the laptop, reinstalled the app, and just imported my work email. Three hours later on my 512M pIII/700 laptop (with slow laptop hard drive, unfortunately), I have a bazillion emails imported into spaces. I decided to shut it down, since it was using the max 256M heap I had set, and restart it with the intact message store.

Now, I get an NPE and the startup hangs with the splash screen. I'll probably try again tomorrow, with a smaller message store.

Time to write the bug report. :-)

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