| From: Howard Gibson via talk
|I figured that separate email files would be using up a lot of
| sectors, but my bandwidth is limited by my Blu-ray discs. My actual
| backup is a gzipped tar file. Sectors should not be a problem, should
| they?
Uncompressed TAR format:
On Fri, 24 Nov 2023 01:20:20 -0500 (EST)
"D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" wrote:
> You mentioned that you were running out of space on your system. If a lot
> of that space is mail messages, I would bet that Maildir is costing you a
> lot of it. Each message is taking a multiple of the
D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote on 2023-11-23 22:20:
I don't remember seeing that corruption in the last few decades of using
mbox.
I didn't notice it 'til transferring providers and looking back at old
message folders. No idea how long it's been lurking around.
Probably nothing of value
Ah - mbox format - still use it for my mail archives.
Convenient for grepping or loading into vi.
On Fri, 2023/11/24 01:20:20AM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
wrote:
| | From: Ron / BCLUG via talk
|
| | I've seen mbox files get corrupted (all mailbox
| | messages in one file, and a line
| From: Ron / BCLUG via talk
| I've seen mbox files get corrupted (all mailbox
| messages in one file, and a line like "From: " is the message delimiter.
| Terrible!)
I don't remember seeing that corruption in the last few decades of using
mbox. The horrors of in-band signalling are well known
