The attached change set lets you download and remove
messages in a segmented way. Just file it in and change
the fetch limit to anything you want, e.g., 10.
(the CS adds a menu item in the category panel for that).

/Leandro

"Bernhard Pieber" <bernhard at pieber.com> wrote:
> Hi fellow Celestians,
> 
> When fetching my mail I got a debugger because Celeste cannot parse a
> certain message using MailMessage.from:. See the script below to recreate
> the walkback. I am not sure whether this is a bug in Celeste or the message
> string is not valid. I would appreciate any tips on how to best deal with
> this situation.
> 
> However, I think the current handling of incorrect messages could be
> improved. If Celeste encounters a message it cannot parse it just opens a
> debugger and stops downloading. It does not continue downloading the other
> messages. Even worse, it does not delete the already downloaded messages so
> that if I fetch mail again it downloads them a second time. In my case these
> are 1500 :-(. (I often wondered if there is a reason why Celeste first
> downloads all the messages and then removed all of them from the server
> instead of fetching and deleting them one by one.)
> 
> Of course the question is, what should we do with invalid messages? Just
> throw them away seems not be the best solution. Perhaps they could be filed
> using special IndexFileEntries so that they can be found and dealt with
> later?
> 
> So, what do you think?
> 
> - Bernhard
> 
> MailMessage from: 'Return-path: <vwnc-request at cs.uiuc.edu>
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> Reply-To: stingray at paradise.net.nz
> To: "vwnc at cs.uiuc.edu" <vwnc at cs.uiuc.edu>
> Subject: Fix of Timestamp>>fromDate:andTime:
> Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 10:57:36 +1300
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> 
> ''From VisualWorks=AE, Release 3.1 of 19 March 1999 on 7 November 2001 at =
> 11:02:18 am''!
> This method (VW3.1) assumes that when creating a Timestamp that time is l=
> ess
> than 24 hours. As Time can be of a longer duration than this, the date ne=
> eds to
> be rolled over when time is equal or greater than 24 hours.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Stewart
> 
> 
> !Timestamp methodsFor: ''BASE''!
> 
> fromDate: date andTime: time
> 
> =09"Set receiver from the date and time.
> =0906/11/2001 SIM Rollover the date by the number of integral days in tim=
> e.
> =09This removes the assumtion that time is less than 24 hours duration."
> 
> =09date isNil
> =09=09ifTrue: [year :=3D 0. month :=3D day :=3D 1]
> =09=09ifFalse: [self fromDate: date].
> =09time isNil
> =09=09ifTrue: [hour :=3D minute :=3D second :=3D millisecond :=3D 0]
> =09=09ifFalse:=20
> =09=09=09[hour :=3D time hours.
> =09=09=09day :=3D day + (hour // 24).
> =09=09=09hour :=3D hour \\ 24.
> =09=09=09minute :=3D time minutes.
> =09=09=09second :=3D time seconds.
> =09=09=09millisecond :=3D 0]! !
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> 
> 
> 
> '
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