On 4/6/24 03:08, Chris M wrote:
I am needing a "refresher course" on mail clients that use the .mbox format to store emails.It's been years since I've used this kind of mail client.Is there any "dangers" I need to know about? Like, keeping the mailbox a certain size?or a certain amount of emails per folder etc?The last client I used, before I went FULL TIME LINUX, was Eudora 7.1 on Windows 10. And you hadto keep the .mbx files TINY TINY TINY or else, you'd face corruption.I always go offline, and then compact my folders after I get done reading emails.Right now my "2024 Archives" folder is at: Number Of Messages: 4776 Size: 300 MB
I do not know about the mbox file format in email applications, but, if you want a powerful email client, as I believe that I have previously stated, I use, for downloading, storing, and, archiving email, the most powerful email client that I have found - alpine, previously known as pine.
The folder properties for the applicable stored messages folder, show "Total count of files: 13720 Total size of files: 24.5GB"I think that I have a couple of hundred filters (it could be more), involving some thousands of filter parameter field values.
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