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[[User:Woozle|Woozle]]: Projects: Software: '''HyperMail'''
[[User:Woozle|Woozle]]: Projects: Software: '''HyperMail'''
==Current Status==
==Current Status==
2005-05-11 The Mozilla/Thunderbird code is basically working, although very slowly... and I keep running into variations of the timestamp format. First it was a malformed timezone string: "+0-900" or maybe it was "-0+900", I forget... but then the latest is this one:
*'''2005-09-30''' Latest problem is that I've run into one of the limits of MS Access -- an error pops up when HyperMail tries to add new records, something like "database size limitation exceeded". The .mdb file is about a gigabyte; I tried compressing it, but Access just locked up... and the import isn't really anywhere near completion. So it's time to try another database engine. I have to set up a [[MySQL]] server on Camilla and see if I run into the same problem using Access as a front end connector, or if I have to somehow go directly (via [[wikipedia:ADO|ADO]], maybe).
*'''2005-05-11''' The Mozilla/Thunderbird code is basically working, although very slowly... and I keep running into variations of the timestamp format. First it was a malformed timezone string: "+0-900" or maybe it was "-0+900", I forget... but then the latest is this one:


  mié, 06 ago 2003 05:52:52 -0400
  mi�, 06 ago 2003 05:52:52 -0400


So I guess I need to provide a way to store the raw timestamp when the parsing code says "huh?".
So I guess I need to provide a way to store the raw timestamp when the parsing code says "huh?".

Revision as of 13:56, 2 October 2005

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Woozle: Projects: Software: HyperMail

Current Status

  • 2005-09-30 Latest problem is that I've run into one of the limits of MS Access -- an error pops up when HyperMail tries to add new records, something like "database size limitation exceeded". The .mdb file is about a gigabyte; I tried compressing it, but Access just locked up... and the import isn't really anywhere near completion. So it's time to try another database engine. I have to set up a MySQL server on Camilla and see if I run into the same problem using Access as a front end connector, or if I have to somehow go directly (via ADO, maybe).
  • 2005-05-11 The Mozilla/Thunderbird code is basically working, although very slowly... and I keep running into variations of the timestamp format. First it was a malformed timezone string: "+0-900" or maybe it was "-0+900", I forget... but then the latest is this one:
mi�, 06 ago 2003 05:52:52 -0400

So I guess I need to provide a way to store the raw timestamp when the parsing code says "huh?".