[Discuss] mbox questions

[abreauj at gmail.com (John Abreau)]

I gave up on mbox long ago. I had all the usual problems with
data corruption, buggy reindexing software, and the pure pain
of trying to grep for individual messages in a single huge file.

For a while I used MH format, until I got comfortable with Maildir.
Now I keep all my local backups of mail folders in Maildir format
on one of my home servers, with Dovecot sitting on top for
easier access via IMAP.


On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:
> I currently use Thunderbird 7.0 and I have periodic freezups. I have had
> this issue before, and one of the solutions is to remove all the index
> (.msf) files and compact all the mbox files. In my situation I have
> emails in local folders going back years. This should be no problem, but
> I would like to find a utility that (1) will test each mbox file for
> corruption and (2) compact it.
> Of course one other solution would be to convert to Evolution or another
> email client such as kmail. I used to use claws, but I prefer to have
> the capability to send html formatted emails if I want to.
>
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