Re: kmail corrupts emails [solved]
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On Wednesday 28 September 2005 18:31, Nick Leverton wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 06:26:29PM +0200, Rigo Wenning wrote:
> > Thanks a lot, will do too,
> >
> > but it remains that I need allies in convincing KMail developers to use
> > their index only for caching and not for valid information.
He? MBox is just the text of all messages concatenated together. Are you sure
that other MUAs store the message status in there? Unless I'm mistaken, the
mbox format doesn't support this.
BTW, about which version of mbox are you talking exactly? There are several
different mbox formats out there:
http://homepages.tesco.net./~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/mail-mbox-formats.html
Each of them is a bit different so you will run into problems when you access
them with different MUAs that support a different mbox format.
> > Valid info
> > should be written back to the maildir
Are you now talking about maildir or mbox?
Anyway, neither maildir nor mbox store the status flags directly in the
message. mbox uses the index file, maildir uses the file name (for those
flags supported by Maildir). And some info, like the "To-Do" flag in kmail,
cannot be saved into it at all. They can only be stored in the local index
file.
> > and KMail should not complain
> > when opening a maildir touched by another agent.
>
> You could open a bugzilla change request and get us all to vote for it !
Even better: Provide a patch...
Cheers,
Reinhold
PS: Regarding the mbox is better/faster/whatever:
http://www.courier-mta.org/mbox-vs-maildir/
"The final conclusion is that -- except in some specific instances -- using
maildirs will be just as fast -- and in sometimes much faster -- than mbox
files, while placing less of a load on the rest of the mail system."
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Reinhold Kainhofer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
email: reinhold@kainhofer.com, http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/
* Financial and Actuarial Mathematics, TU Wien, http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/
* K Desktop Environment, http://www.kde.org, KOrganizer maintainer
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