Re: To mbox or not, that is the question!
On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 12:51:06PM +0200, Richard Lyons wrote:
>
> One last word of warning to anyone trying to operate mutt and kmail:
> while I experimented, I had both readers open concurrently. I finished
> up totally corrupting the data, so that each email in debian-user that
> I clicked on in kmail immediately lost its subject and author's name.
> This was a result of operating on mbox with both readers at once. A
> corruption near the beginning of the mbox (which was by then large)
> meant potential loss of hundreds of emails - the whole folder! I was
> able to edit the problem out by hand, but it demonstrates the relative
> security of maildir format, where each message is in its own file.
I'm going to put this thread into a docbook doc. It has, as was
mentioned previously, grown the toolbox.
--
Mike
Moving forward in pushing back the envelope of the corporate paradigm.
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