On Monday, Aug 18, 2003, at 14:30 US/Pacific, Mark James wrote:
Be aware of database corruption if you get a lot of mail - you can lose
everything in a folder if it does. All the major mail programs have
problems like this.
Has this happen to you with Mail? Mail stores messages in mbox format,
which is very straightforward. I suppose the program might simply
delete stuff, but otherwise if there's any kind of problem you can just
go in and edit the thing in a text editor. This is obviously not
something you can do with Emailer's opaque proprietary monolithic
database format -- I've had the occasional mysteriously unopenable
message in Emailer and there's nothing I could do about it.
Does anyone actually know any details of Emailer's database format?
I've had no luck sucking out mail from it with either Mail or Outlook
Express, and using AppleScript on it would take years, so I'm wondering
if I can pull stuff out of the file directly. I suppose there's a good
chance it uses the same chained-block structure as the Mail Actions
file, but I haven't actually peeked.
--
Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA
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