Re: [Discuss] mbox questions

2011-11-16 Thread 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 fil

Re: [Discuss] mbox questions

2011-10-28 Thread 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

Re: [Discuss] mbox questions

2011-10-27 Thread John Abreau
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 f

[Discuss] mbox questions

2011-10-27 Thread Jerry Feldman
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 t