[Discuss] mbox questions

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

Certainly MH and maildir are less corruption prone.

On 10/27/2011 06:37 PM, John Abreau wrote:
> 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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