Smail missing
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Jan 17, 2019
7 years ago
lull
is a fossil
Hi, does anyone know if we had some of our smails deleted?
I'm sure I have two full boxes but now they are not :(
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Jan 17, 2019
7 years ago
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Crappy
Smails older than 2014 are gone. Keith has been trying to restore them but it keeps crashing the site.
Quote by Keith
Hey everyone, just checking back in. I&;ve attempted to merge the old mails back onto the site.. a number of times now and have been unsuccessful.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, sMail is now the oldest system remaining on the site and the way that mails are stored is... really bad. Each mail and reply are an entirely new row in the database (instead of being "threaded" in the way most systems are now) and that means that the table itself is almost 50GB. Inserting years of data back into it has crashed the database (and the site) at each attempt.</p>
<p>I&;ll look into the possibility of getting them as text downloads on the site, but at this point I&;ve put a lot of time into getting them onto the site and it&;s been unsuccessful, and it&;s about time to call it :(
<p>Unfortunately, sMail is now the oldest system remaining on the site and the way that mails are stored is... really bad. Each mail and reply are an entirely new row in the database (instead of being "threaded" in the way most systems are now) and that means that the table itself is almost 50GB. Inserting years of data back into it has crashed the database (and the site) at each attempt.</p>
<p>I&;ll look into the possibility of getting them as text downloads on the site, but at this point I&;ve put a lot of time into getting them onto the site and it&;s been unsuccessful, and it&;s about time to call it :(
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