Anthony Roy wrote: > > Hi All, > > I have been using Mozilla since version 0.7, when I imported my > Netscape mailbox into Mozilla Mail. I'm looking to optimise my file > backup, and notice that there are files in the Mail folder > corresponding to each mail folder, but there are extensionless files > and .msf files for each folder. Are all of these necessary? It looks > like the extensionless files contain all the data - what are the .msf > for? Some kind of index I guess, and if so, can mozilla rebuild these > starting with just the mailboxes?
The MSF files are Mail Summary Files. You can safely trash them, and they'll be rebuilt. And you're right, they're basically just indexes.
