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<h2>News</h2>
<div class="news">
<ul>
+ <li>2012-10-25: a problem with a simple workaround has caused
+ several reported <span class="important">recollindex
+ crashes</span> recently. If you store and index
+ Mozilla/Thunderbird email out of the standard location
+ (~/.thunderbird), you should add the following at the end of
+ your configuration file (e.g.:
+ ~/.recoll/recoll.conf): <pre><tt>
+ [/path/to/my/mozilla/mail]
+ mhmboxquirks = tbird
+ </tt></pre> Adjust the path to your local value of course...
+ Without this hint, recollindex has trouble finding the
+ message delimiters inside the folder files, and will
+ possibly use all the computer's memory and crash. Apart from
+ crashes, which only occur for very big folders, this also
+ causes incorrect mail indexing.
+ </li>
<li>2012-10-19: the source for <a href="recoll-1.18.001.tar.gz">
recoll 1.18.001</a> is available, and this is a call to
volunteers to test it. There are binary