Marcin Januchta wrote:
>
> Hi there, I'm not sure if I hit the right News group, but here are
> some questions that I hope you may give me some help.
>
> 1. What are MSF files (they are in mail folders). What do they mean? How
> are they read? how are they generated? What happens if someone alters
> then (I've heard that deleting them causes no real pain).
>
> 2. I've also heard that *.slt directory that stands between Users50 and
> the proper User directory (in this case I'm talking about default
> location of profile data storage <- I'm not sure if that's the correct
> word. My technical english is rather poor. Sorry) is some kind of
> protection against other programs. Questions as above: what is this? how
> does it work? how is it generated? Let's say, I wrote a program that's
> copying mail from N4.76 into M0.8.1. Do I have to guess what's that
> directory? Or is it written somewhere?
>
> 3. What are PopState.dat and Rules.dat. Guess what? Questions are the
> same as above! :)
>
> Hope someone will be able to answer this question or give me some
> doc's that could help. Frustration is starting to kick my a**.
1. I believe it stands for "Mail Summary Files". They're basically
summary files dynamically generated from the actual mail files (the ones
with no extension). Yes, they can be deleted and they will be recreated
as necessary. I don't know if you can/why you'd want to alter them.
2. I think it's a randomly generated name used to make it harder to find
the user directory programmatically (.slt == salt?). Sorry, that's all
I know about it. :-)
3. PopState.dat is used to keep track of messages on the server. As far
as I know, it's only used with the "Keep messages on server" option to
keep track of your last downloaded message, but I don't know that for
sure. Rules.dat is your mail filter file - it's plain text.
Justin H.
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