The messages in the account Local Folders will now be converted to the maildir format. Thunderbird will restart after the conversion is complete.
by buying an iPhone in China and using Apple's "Apps using WLAN & Cellular" feature:
You may not know that iOS 10 has a Chinese "special" Internet access feature
iOS Wi-Fi is turned off for some application and cannot turn on?
7 Steps Apple Could Take to Protect Privacy (#2: Let users disable WiFi per app)
"Apps using WLAN & Cellular" in WiFi feature on American iPhones
Extremely disappointing that Apple does not permit this critical privacy and security feature on all iOS devices irrespective of region; it's especially surprising given that China usually gets the short end of the stick:
Apple moves to store iCloud keys in China, raising human rights fears
After China Objects, Apple Removes App Used by Hong Kong Protestors
Apple accused of giving Chinese government control over local data
iOS 15: China exempt from Apple 'private relay' privacy feature
See also A humble iOS 14 wishlist.
/mac | Sep 10, 2022
System Preferences → Trackpad → Scroll & Zoom → enable Rotate.
Open an image in Preview → Tools → Annotate → Text.
After entering desired text and with the text box still selected, use the rotate gesture to turn it as desired.
For more fine-grained control, use Pixelmator (Add text on a path) or Acorn (Path Text | video tutorial).
H/T: blueswirly and Zabobon
/mac | Sep 08, 2022
by Jean Delaire in the September 1908 issue of The National Review (no, not that one):
Man has ever desired above all things to know whence he comes
and whither he goes, as he passes "from eternity to eternity across the narrow bridge of Time"…
What is India's answer to the question regarding man's origin and destiny, as given in her ancient sacred Scriptures? All the vast system of faith known as Hinduism might be expressed in two words: Divine realisation. Man is one with the Deity. Man must realise this oneness with the Deity: this is the cornerstone of Hinduism…
[W]hat we call sin is nothing but ignorance, the folly of the child preceding the wisdom of the grown man. Not limiting, as we do, man's life to three score years and ten, the Hindu believes that souls in incarnation are of different ages, and the sinner is merely a young soul, a child-Ego, that has not yet, through repeated incarnations, learnt all his lessons in the great school of life. Man is the maker of his own destiny. "As the sowing, thus the reaping," declared the Hindu Scriptures long before St. Paul had said: "Whatsoever a man sows that shall he also reap." And this great law of Cause and Effect that acts on the moral and mental, as well as on the material plane, holds man in its grip until knowledge sets him free—knowledge that the self within and the Self of the universe are one. "If a man fails to know (the Supreme Self) ere casting off the body, he will be re-embodied in creation's worlds. … If he knows (the Supreme Self) the mortal is free: To deathlessness he goes" (Katho-panishad), in other words, he enters Nirvana, he "becomes one with Bráhman." Thus knowledge, in its higher aspect of wisdom, is India's method of salvation: To "enter the Supreme Abode," to "attain the Nirvana of Bráhman," man must "see the Self in all things and all things in the Self;" by this knowledge only man is freed from "the Wheel of Births and Deaths.”
That this ideal was not a sterile one, a metaphysical flight that ignored the sins and sorrows of this world—illusive though this world-pageant was deemed—is shown in countless beautiful passages of the Hindu Sacred Books [Ed. note: Jean attributes these quotes to the Mahâbhârata]:
The wise man remembers only the good, never the evil, that has been done unto him: he doeth good without hope of reward. … In this world there is nothing dearer to a creature than its life: hence one should show compassion to the lives of others as one does to one's own life. … One should never do that to another which one regards as injurious to one's own self: this, in brief, is the rule of righteousness. … One should forgive under every injury. … Forgiveness is asceticism, forgiveness is holiness. … Abstention from injury, truthfulness of speech, benevolence, compassion—these are regarded as penances by the wise, and not the emaciation of the body. … Love all creatures, scorning none. Be truthful in speech, humble, with passions under complete control.
/misc | Aug 28, 2022
In Excel, it's very simple to calculate the number of days between two dates by simply subtracting one cell from the other, e.g., entering =(B2-B1) in B3 below:
| Arrival: | 1/1/22 |
| Departure: | 2/1/22 |
| Days: | 31 |
While Word supports basic formulas in tables (Table Tools → Layout → Data → Formula), date handling is unsupported; the formula above returns "0.0".
You can of course embed or link an Excel worksheet into a Word document, but there are issues with formatting, layout, and performance.
Field codes allow for calculating dates in Word, but aren't for the faint of heart. Paul Edstein/macropod's Microsoft Word Date Calculation Tutorial (mirror) is the definitive guide; here's a taste from the section entitled "Calculate the # Days Difference Between Two Dates":
{=
{SET a{=INT((14-{EndDate \@ M})/12)}}
{SET b{={EndDate \@ yyyy}+4800-a}}
{SET c{={EndDate \@ M}+12*a-3}}
{SET d{EndDate \@ d}}
{=d+INT((153*c+2)/5)+365*b+INT(b/4)-INT(b/100)+INT(b/400)-32045}
-
{SET a{=INT((14-{StartDate \@ M})/12)}}
{SET b{={StartDate \@ yyyy}+4800-a}}
{SET c{={StartDate \@ M}+12*a-3}}
{SET d{StartDate \@ d}}
{=d+INT((153*c+2)/5)+365*b+INT(b/4)-INT(b/100)+INT(b/400)-32045}
\# ,0}More on fields:
VBA's DateDiff function offers a more straightforward approach: simply insert two Date Picker Content Controls and one Rich Text Content Control (Developer → Controls), then add the following VBA code:
Sub CalculateDaysBetweenDates()
Dim days As Integer, date1 As Date, date2 As Date
date1 = ActiveDocument.ContentControls(1).Range
date2 = ActiveDocument.ContentControls(2).Range
days = DateDiff("d", date1, date2)
ActiveDocument.ContentControls(3).Range = days
End Sub
Sub Document_ContentControlOnExit(ByVal ContentControl As ContentControl, Cancel As Boolean)
' Update days when focus leaves Content Control box
Call CalculateDaysBetweenDates
End SubIf there are additional fields or formulae in the table, add ActiveDocument.Fields.Update under Call CalculateDaysBetweenDates to update them as well.
Rather than referring to the Content Controls numerically based on their location in the document, you can specify their UIDs instead:
Click the desired Content Control to reveal the 3 dot tab to the left, then click on the tab.
Run this VBA code to display the CC's UID:
Sub GetUniqueID()
MsgBox Selection.ContentControls(1).ID
End SubReplace the numeric CC reference in the CalculateDaysBetweenDates subroutine with the corresponding UID, e.g., ActiveDocument.ContentControls(1).Range → ActiveDocument.ContentControls("1247527479").Range
/windows | Aug 28, 2022
"Prima facie, it looks as though the parapsychologist is here studying a phenomenon in which a human subject, normally in some sense 'in' his body, appears in some paranormal fashion to get 'out.' There is no reason to dispute the correctness of this view at a certain level of observation. In my opinion, however, when we look more closely, we arrive at a very different picture of what is happening. At least one advantage of this revised picture is that it renders the phenomenon of OBE simpler and consequently more intelligible. The difference is this: the subject, instead of paranormally getting 'out' of the body, is already, in substance, 'out.' If so, it is not a matter of being in or out, or of two mutually exclusive and discrete states, but rather, of varying degrees of being 'out,' where at one end of the continuum we observe the dramatic phenomenon parapsychologists call the OBE; at the opposite end we observe something quite different, the subject wholly enmeshed and entangled in his bodily existence to such a degree that he experiences himself as identified with the events and vicissitudes of his bodily organism."
"...the subject always was out-of-the-body and ... the paranormal OBE represents one type of empirically dramatic and self-certifying instance of becoming fully conscious of the fact."
"The model I am proposing goes far beyond epiphenomenalism. It would be closer to hypophenomenalism. Ducasse (1961) introduced this term, though not the conception it is intended to express. 'Thus, the soul is not in the body, but the body is in, and dependent upon, the soul, which both precedes and survives it, and whose force gives form and organization to the matter of which the body is composed' (p. 81). So, instead of thinking of consciousness as in some sense located 'in' the body and sometimes managing in some paranormal fashion to get 'out,' it may be more in accord with the truth to think of the body as located 'in' the field of consciousness."
/misc | Aug 08, 2022
(TL;DR: Resolved by enabling Windows Event Log.)
Attempting to open Microsoft Office apps like Word or Excel resulted in a "Sign in to set up Office" window; attempting to sign in produced a "We are unable to connect right now. Please check your network and try again later." error message.
CBBG1000 mentioned encountering the same error when "connecting from Outlook Client to O365 Exchange servers via a VPN connection over Juniper Pulse" and working around it by "restarting the NlaSvc service" (which I assumed referred to "Network Location Awareness"); however, attempting to start the service via the services.msc GUI returned:
Windows could not start the Network Location Awareness service on Local Computer.
Error 1068: The dependency service or group failed to start.
Right clicked "Network Location Awareness" → Properties → Dependencies to discover the following required services:
Checked all five services; Windows Event Log had been disabled. Enabled, started, and tried signing in to Microsoft 365 again - success.
/windows | Aug 03, 2022
The roadmap for Thunderbird 102 (2022) mentioned Maildir support and a decade-old Bugzilla issue about finishing the job:
Maildir is a message storage format that should improve data safety, allow for incremental (delta) backups of messages and allow for antivirus to interact better with messages. Maildir will be vastly improved for 102, but may not be pref'd on by default.
845952 - (maildirblockers) [meta] finish "maildir" message storage
There is still little in the way of official documentation, so I decided to test 3 native methods for converting mbox-based Local Folders to Maildir under macOS 12.4 Monterey and Mozilla Thunderbird 102.
Back up before attempting any of these; Mozilla's Maildir in Thunderbird page still warns:
We suggest you leave Maildir disabled unless you are an advanced user, willing to risk your data, and know how to back up your email before turning on Maildir and how to restore it if you run into problems.
Thunderbird 102 introduced a new import/export wizard which sounded promising; alas, it did not avail:
Create and open a new Thunderbird profile then close the Account Setup tab
Thunderbird → Settings → General → Indexing → "Message Store Type for new accounts:" → change from "File per folder (mbox)" to "File per message (maildir)"
For good measure: Thunderbird → Settings → General → Config Editor... → set "mail.store_conversion_enabled" to "true".
Tools → Import... → Import from another Thunderbird installation → Continue → select mbox-based Thunderbird profile → Continue → uncheck all but "Mail Messages" → Continue → click "Start Import" then "Finish"
Thunderbird automatically restarted and a new "Thunderbird Import" folder appeared under Local Folders, but it only contained empty subfolders.
From Thunderbird 60.0 Release Notes:
Thunderbird now allows the conversion of folders from mbox to maildir format and vice versa. This is an experimental feature that needs to be enabled by setting the preference mail.store_conversion_enabled. Note that this functionality does not not work if the option "Allow Windows Search/Spotlight to search messages" is selected.
Let's give it a try:
Thunderbird → Settings → General → Config Editor... → set "mail.store_conversion_enabled" to "true".
Right click Local Folders → Settings → change "Message Store Type:" from "File per folder (mbox)" to "File per message (maildir)" → Continue:
The messages in the account Local Folders will now be converted to the maildir format. Thunderbird will restart after the conversion is complete.
Converting the account Local Folders to maildir...
Conversion failed.
Found thanks to this archived copy: Conversion de mbox à maildir. Instructions have been abbreviated, amplified, and updated:
Create and open a new Thunderbird profile then close the Account Setup tab
Thunderbird → Settings → General → Indexing → "Message Store Type for new accounts:" → change from "File per folder (mbox)" to "File per message (maildir)"
Thunderbird → Account Settings → Account Actions → Add Mail Account... → set up an email account {this account will use Maildir}
Thunderbird → Settings → General → Indexing → "Message Store Type for new accounts:" → change from "File per message (maildir)" back to "File per folder (mbox)"
Thunderbird → Account Settings → Account Actions → Add Mail Account... → set up a dummy email account by entering a name and email address (e.g., dummy@example.com) → "Configure manually" → INCOMING SERVER: Protocol: POP3 → Hostname: dummy.example.com* → "Advanced Config" → OK {this account will use mbox}
Thunderbird → Settings → General → Indexing → "Message Store Type for new accounts:" → change from "File per folder (mbox)" back to "File per message (maildir)"
Exit Thunderbird
Replace contents of ~/Library/Thunderbird/Profiles/new-profile/Mail/dummy.example.com/ with copy of contents from "~Library/Thunderbird/Profiles/old-mbox-profile/Mail/Local Folders"
Start Thunderbird with the new profile; mail folders from old mbox profile appear under dummy@example.com
Select all mail folders under dummy@example.com and drag to Local Folders, which will copy them into new Maildir-based directories. Compare message counts by enabling View > Layout > Folder Pane Columns.
* Leaving the hostname as ".example.com" creates a hidden folder in ~/Library/Thunderbird/Profiles/new-profile/Mail/, making step 8 slightly confounding.
To disable default grouping of messages by thread, change mailnews.default_view_flags from 1 (threaded) to 0 (unthreaded)
/misc | Jul 10, 2022
Michael Tsai has hosted a long-running discussion on data loss in Mail.app starting in Catalina and continuing unabated through Big Sur and Monterey (I have settled on only moving messages from IMAP servers to local storage via Thunderbird).
Further, Mail's built-in export (and import) methods suffer from various limitations and bugs; the following tests were run under macOS 12.4 and Mail 16.0 (3696.100.31):
Creates a single MBOX file containing all messages (actually a slightly nonstandard folder with the mbox file named "mbox" and another file named "table_of_contents").
Pro: Successfully exported all messages.
Con: Attempting to import such MBOX files (containing any significant number of messages) back into Mail generally fails with the following error: Some messages could not be imported. The partially imported mailboxes are located in the mailbox named "Import" in the mailboxes list.
While Mail displayed a count of 4611 messages for the mailbox, 4618 were shown in Claws Mail and Thunderbird after import.
Creates a single EML file per message (converting from Mail's native EMLX format, which stores attachments separately) as opposed to MBOX's monolithic single file format.
Pro: Works on even large numbers of messages (tested on a selection of over 10,000 - see below).
Con: Silently fails to export messages with subject lines 252 characters or longer.
When performed on the aforementioned mailbox (which Mail showed as containing 4611 messages while the exported MBOX file was reported to hold 4618), only 4600 messages were exported. The missing messages all had subject lines over 251 characters in length. This was verified by getting a list of all subjects in the mailbox via AppleScript (which also returned 4618 instead of 4611):
tell application "Mail" to get the subject of every message of mailbox "foo"
set subjectList to result
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "\n"
set subject1PerLine to subjectList as string
get subject1PerLine
then locating those containing 252 or more characters: grep '.\{252\}' subjects.txt. Sure enough, the difference was exactly 18.
Mail reported 10,663 messages in another mailbox; however, clicking and dragging them to a folder in Finder resulted in 10,672 EML files, indicating once again that Mail has a hard time keeping track of messages.
Tom Floeren's 2017 "Export Selected Mail Messages" AppleScript still runs under Monterey, exporting highlighted messages to EML files.
Pro: Truncates subjects/filenames over 180 characters to avoid the con described in 2c.
Con: 31 messages were missing from the export after the script terminated with Script Error: AppleEvent timed out. Happily, this was easily rectified by adding with timeout of 3600 seconds above repeat with i from 1 to count of msgSubjects and end timeout below end repeat; afterwards, all messages exported successfully. (UPDATE: See Michael Tsai's post for another potential issue affecting non-ASCII characters under some circumstances.)
As in 1d and 2d above, 4618 messages were exported from the mailbox which Mail had reported as containing 4611 messages. As a final test, ran this simple AppleScript oneliner to get the number of messages in the mailbox: tell application "Mail" to get the count of messages of mailbox "foo"; the result was 4618.
Open source script that "converts .emlx and .partial.emlx files written by Apple's Mail.app into fully self-contained, 'stand alone' .eml files."
The author, Philipp Katz, relates that "one of my IMAP mailboxes went out of service and I was not able to copy all the messages to a different account with Mail.app, even though all mails and attachments were there (see here for the story). That’s why I created this script."
Pro: Successfully converted all 4618 messages in test mailbox to EML format.
Con: Not native.
/mac | Jun 14, 2022
/mac | Jun 11, 2022
/misc | May 20, 2022