okay...scratch that. 32 bytes per message, right?
byte 1 is some ID # not sure what 5-7 are...this is the only thing I think I am totally clueless on. byte 9 is also an ID # (byte 1 + 1) 13-16 & 29-32 are some kind of message ID. byte 17 is the length of the email in lines. 18 seems to be a flag...not sure for what. 19-28 seem to be unused... can anyone verify any of this? -Mark ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Mark Kahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 23:27:06 -0400 >okay...so can anyone tell me how the uid is laid out? it doesn't make any sense to >me just looking at it in raw hex...there don't seem to be any breakers other than 00 >00 00 and I can't tell what that seperates...and it's not laid out in an x >bytes/message index. > >And I thought of splitting the mbx file except that a) there's over 500 files I have >to rebuild and b) some of them are fragmented in about 10 places...we had a major >disk crash and since my boss is too cheap to pay for tapes for more than 1 >backup/month, we ended up losing 27 days worth of email. > >-Mark > >---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- >From: Sanford Whiteman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 22:54:13 -0400 > >>> what is the uid anyway? is it an index file? >> >>Exactly. >> >>it just adds a >> to the start of the line then strips it when it's >>> displayed...apparently not when replying though. >> >>Yes, there are various situations which can mess up reparsing. >> >>This might be a little late, but before rebuilding the entire MBX, I >>would suggest cutting it in half, then in quarters, etc. to isolate >>the problem area (making sure you break on a boundary). >> >>-Sandy >> >> >>Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >>to be removed from this list. >> >>An Archive of this list is available at: >>http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ >> >>Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked >>questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ >> > >Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >to be removed from this list. > >An Archive of this list is available at: >http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > >Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked >questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
