Michael Collette wrote:

>Isn't there a single routine that's called to update both 
>the source and destination mbox files?
>
Hopefully. But you have to test all cases nevertheless.

>>If there's a bug in the attachment removal, you'd have a critical
>>dataloss bug that is affecting all users.
>>
>Very true.  Could be just as true about any functioning writing to or 
>reading from the mbox files.
>
Yes, that's why touching that particular code is not fun.

>Perhaps, but that doesn't address how to make sure that them AV apps don't 
>muck with Moz's mbox files.
>
A release note does, at least to some degree. That's the best we can do 
at the moment, as it stands (unless somebody has a better idea!). And 
contact the vendors or the broken apps, of course.

>We know that at very least Symantec's glitch is reproducable
>
You do know that? Good! Can you please describe the exact steps leading 
to the problem?

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