John Snippe <[email protected]> wrote (Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:39:09 -0400):
> Actually, afaik the current iteration does indeed use a database > rather than text-file system... it was apparently the first thing the > developer changed in going from v2.2 to v2.2.5 once BareBones let it > go. It's one of the things that somewhat disappointed me about this > new version as I am kinda-sorta still old-school about liking text > files ;-) No, it's the other way round: While the old version used a database (or maybe mbox files with a single file for each mail folder, can't remember at the moment) the current version indeed stores an individual file for each message. It's somewhat "disguised" since there seems to be a single file called "Mail" in the Mailsmith User Data directory but actually it's a package. When you select "Show package content" (or whatever this menu item is called in the english version) from the Finder contextual menu you'll see various folders, and within those folders, the message files. Trust me, I've Mailsmith 2.2.5 installed here on my system -- because of PowerMail, I don't really need it but I was curious enough to test it... ;-) Kind regards, Tobias Jung
