Re: [Discuss] mbox questions

2011-11-16 Thread Tom Metro
Jerry Feldman wrote: ...one of the solutions is to remove all the index (.msf) files and compact all the mbox files. In my situation I have emails in local folders going back years. This should be no problem... Be aware that although the documentation would have you believe that the .msf files

Re: [Discuss] mbox questions

2011-10-28 Thread Jerry Feldman
Certainly MH and maildir are less corruption prone. On 10/27/2011 06:37 PM, John Abreau wrote: I gave up on mbox long ago. I had all the usual problems with data corruption, buggy reindexing software, and the pure pain of trying to grep for individual messages in a single huge file. For a