On 1/2/2013 8:15 PM, Marco Nembrini wrote:
On 03.01.2013 08:40, Walter Bright wrote:
The most miserable of all is Microsoft Outlook Express, which stores all
the info in hidden directories that are down a long chain of paths
filled with directory names that are GUID identifiers.
Then, the mail files themselves are in some secret binary format.
I hate OE, it uses a single file for each mail folder, and when this file gets
bigger than 2GB (easily possible for the inbox folder and a few years of email
with attachments), it cannot open it anymore. So what does is do? It creates a
new empty file with the same name, nuking all your emails.
Yowsa, looks like I dodged a bullet with that one.
Back in the 90's, I used to use an email program called ccremote. It encrypted
the email folders. I lost a lot of email when I forgot the password :-(
