Re: kmail corrupts emails [solved]
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On Wednesday 28 September 2005 18:59, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> 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.
Sorry, I should be more exact: The mbox format (or rather the email message
format, since mbox is just messages concatenated together) has a Status field
for some status flags, but not others like for "message was deleted" or
message is a to-do, etc.. That can only be stored in the index file or not at
all.
Mutt for example doesn't store that at all. You can either purge the messages
when you leave mutt (in which case, the mbox file is rewritten... Great for a
huge folder!) or if you don't purge them, they are there again when you next
start mutt.
Cheers,
Reinhold
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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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