i thought i changed the setting so i won't be annoyed by
the
[Download Headers] dialogue Box !

>
> i thought i changed the setting so i won't be annoyed by
> the
>           [Download Headers]  dialogue Box   !

Sometimes, i get interrupted several times , 1 second apart.

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in the last week or so... i've been noticing that

in Sci.Lang, AUE (alt.usage.english), Rec.Puzzles , etc....

new posts that i can read on NovaBBS are not appearing in TB.

On 4/5/2024 11:19 AM, HenHanna wrote:
>
>>
>> i thought i changed the setting so i won't be annoyed by
>>      the
>>            [Download Headers]  dialogue Box   !
>
>        Sometimes, i get interrupted several times ,  1 second apart.
>
> _____________________
>
> in the last week or so...  i've been noticing that
>
> in Sci.Lang,  AUE (alt.usage.english),  Rec.Puzzles ,   etc....
>
> new posts that i can read on NovaBBS are not appearing in TB.

how can i tell TB to just download the headers silently?

(Don't ask me again!)

On 4/17/2024 9:22 PM, HenHanna wrote:
> On 4/5/2024 11:19 AM, HenHanna wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> i thought i changed the setting so i won't be annoyed by
>>>      the
>>>            [Download Headers]  dialogue Box   !
>>
>>         Sometimes, i get interrupted several times ,  1 second apart.
>>
>> _____________________
>>
>> in the last week or so...  i've been noticing that
>>
>> in Sci.Lang,  AUE (alt.usage.english),  Rec.Puzzles ,   etc....
>>
>> new posts that i can read on NovaBBS are not appearing in TB.
>
>
>
> how can i tell TB to just download the headers  silently?
>
>                                 (Don't ask me again!)
>
>
>
>

this [Download Headers?] dialogue box problem is persisting!!!

i thought i changed the setting so i won't be annoyed by
     the  [Download Headers???]  dialogue Box   !

       Sometimes, i get interrupted several times ,  1 second apart.
---------- Often in pairs

How can i tell TB to just download _ALL_ the headers  silently?

                                (Don't ask me again!)

in the Dialogue Box, the default selection
is [Download 0 headers].

On 5/3/2024 1:11 PM, News wrote:
> In article <v139ii$m015$2@dont-email.me>,
> HenHanna <HenHanna@devnull.tb> wrote:
>
>> i thought i changed the setting so i won't be annoyed by
>> the [Download Headers???] dialogue Box !
>
>> Sometimes, i get interrupted several times , 1 second apart.
>> ---------- Often in pairs
>
>
>
>> How can i tell TB to just download _ALL_ the headers silently?
>
>> (Don't ask me again!)
>
>> in the Dialogue Box, the default selection
>> is [Download 0 headers].
>
>
> It might help if you used the Shift key occasionally on the personal
> pronoun. ;-)
>
> D.
>

OK, I'll do it... Will it solve the problem I'm having?

HenHanna wrote:
> How can i tell TB to just download ALL   the headers  silently?
>                                   (Don't ask me again!)
Set the number of headers to fetch to a really big number.

On 5/4/2024 4:33 PM, Andy Burns wrote:
> HenHanna wrote:
>
>> How can i tell TB to just download ALL   the headers  silently?
>>                                    (Don't ask me again!)
>
> Set the number of headers to fetch to a really big number.

In the Thunderbird prefs.js , you can see some lines like this, if needing inspiration.
Each server can have a different "suggested size" entered. One way or another,
you make these numbers larger, if wanting everything.

user_pref("mail.server.server2.max_articles", 2000);
user_pref("mail.server.server3.max_articles", 100); <=== mixmin
user_pref("mail.server.server4.max_articles", 5000);
user_pref("mail.server.server6.max_articles", 2000);

The headers are downloaded via XOVER, and the rate can be around
100 headers per second or so. It depends on how well maintained the
server is, whether it can produce info that fast.

Many other operations involving servers (like offline synchronization)
are closer to 2 operations per second.

Even if rec.arts.tv claims to have articles from 1-1000000,
the server does not have that many, and your fetch of
all headers, gives 980,000 to 1,000,000 or so. There are
only 20,000 messages actually stored on the server, the
others having scrolled off.

Only a server like Giganews, would have all one million of
the messages (ten plus years retention). It would take
a long time, to download all the headers a big server
has to offer. For the smaller servers, fetching all of them
isn't quite so bad.

Paul