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 while I used MH format, until I got comfortable with Maildir. > Now I keep all my local backups of mail folders in Maildir format > on one of my home servers, with Dovecot sitting on top for > easier access via IMAP. > > > On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Jerry Feldman <g...@blu.org> wrote: >> I currently use Thunderbird 7.0 and I have periodic freezups. I have had >> this issue before, and 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, but >> I would like to find a utility that (1) will test each mbox file for >> corruption and (2) compact it. >> Of course one other solution would be to convert to Evolution or another >> email client such as kmail. I used to use claws, but I prefer to have >> the capability to send html formatted emails if I want to. > >
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