-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 05 April 2003 12:43, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > I could be wrong, but I always thought that deleting a 1k msg from the middle > > of a 100mb mbox file doesn't cause any copying right away. It just marks the > > msg as deleted by changing a byte or two in its header, and so doesn't show > > it to you anymore. > > There is no index to mark it in. Or do you intend to write on the place > of the message? Anyway, the format has no specifications regarding > "deleted" messages.
Well, I just ran a test in kmail - created an mbox with about 12,000 real-life msgs, restarted kmail, deleted a few msgs from the middle of the mbox, restarted kmail again. Checking the mbox file on disk, the deleted msgs were still there. So it must have marked them as deleted somehow. Of course, in addition to the 40mb mbox file kmail also created two index files, ont of which was about 4mb large. So the information might have been in those. I don't know if that means kmail doens't confirm to the mbox standard. But, it's what led me to make the above claim. - -- Dan Armak Matan, Israel Public GPG key: http://www.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+jrtSUI2RQ41fiVERAs7iAJ99Kx/OTknf15whtQ1ysGQv+qsWfwCfS47f 1rsNgsw8TYzEhVz+9L0NAIA= =Dz36 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
