On Fri, Jan 30, 2026 at 05:35:48AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2026-01-29 12:06:36 -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > > If the tool were in the middle of making an update to the > > content-length, or the actual content, and you had a power > > failure, hardware failure, etc., > > Well, such failures are rare and would have to occur at the > wrong time.
This was just an example. There are a number of other ways it can occur that I'm aware of, and probably more that I'm not... - hardware or power failure during update - Being processed by a tool that only knows about /the other/ mbox format (i.e. any other) - An mbox with messages that use multiple mbox* formats that assumes the whole mbox is in the first format it detects - Moving mbox files between systems with different EOL - A malicious user inserting an incorrect Content-Length - ??? So sorry, no. Of course, some of those also affect the other versions of mbox, but the failure case is usually less bad, e.g. it occasionally loses a message, but doesn't corrupt the whole mail folder. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
