Re: Evolution: A warning about mbox data corruptions
Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.net> writes:
> This is intended as a warning on all users of the Evolution MUA that it
> contains a bug since years that leads to irrecoverably corruptions on
> any "From_" lines in mails.
Using mbox to store mails seems prone to corruption by design, not to
mention other disadvantages. It circumvented the problem of
significantly decreased performance for instances when there were many
files in the same directory file systems which are now pretty obsolete
had.
Since quite some time, you can use maildir or nnml instead.
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