Re: [Discuss] mbox questions

[Tom Metro]

Jerry Feldman wrote:
 ...one of the solutions is to remove all the index
 (.msf) files and compact all the mbox files. In my situation I have
 emails in local folders going back years. This should be no problem...

Be aware that although the documentation would have you believe that the
.msf files are there strictly for performance and are otherwise
disposable, they actually store some unique meta data - at least with TB
version 3.x and earlier, and for local folders. For example, if you
delete your .msf file, you will lose any tagging you had set.

Even doing something as seemingly innocuous as moving your local mail
store to a different file system (path) can throw TB off ad cause the
meta data to be lost.


John Abreau wrote:
 Now I keep all my local backups of mail folders in Maildir format
 on one of my home servers, with Dovecot sitting on top for
 easier access via IMAP.

I second that approach.

 -Tom

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Re: [Discuss] mbox questions

[Jerry Feldman]

Certainly MH and maildir are less corruption prone.

On 10/27/2011 06:37 PM, John Abreau wrote:
 I gave up on mbox long ago. I had all the usual problems with
 data corruption, buggy reindexing software, and the pure pain
 of trying to grep for individual messages in a single huge file.

 For a while I used MH format, until I got comfortable with Maildir.
 Now I keep all my local backups of mail folders in Maildir format
 on one of my home servers, with Dovecot sitting on top for
 easier access via IMAP.


 On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote:
 I currently use Thunderbird 7.0 and I have periodic freezups. I have had
 this issue before, and one of the solutions is to remove all the index
 (.msf) files and compact all the mbox files. In my situation I have
 emails in local folders going back years. This should be no problem, but
 I would like to find a utility that (1) will test each mbox file for
 corruption and (2) compact it.
 Of course one other solution would be to convert to Evolution or another
 email client such as kmail. I used to use claws, but I prefer to have
 the capability to send html formatted emails if I want to.




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