On 9/9/11 8:47 AM, Alex Baer wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am new to this newsgroup, so please be patient with me, inittially. > ;) > My question has been asked several times in other forums and mailing > lists, as it seems, certainly, but a quick web research didn't give any > useful answers within the last 12 or 14 months. Of course, should have > overlooked something, could you, please, point me to the relevant > stuff? > > Are there plans, that Seamonkey Mail will support other mail storage > formats than mbox? Examples would be mh or maildir. > > Seamonkey is such a powerful and modern suite of tools and > applications, that it's hard to understand and accept, that only mbox > is supported, as of now. I have had trouble with the index files needed > to resemble pseudo-hierarchies of mail folders, and maybe other things. > Also, incremental backups take much more time than justified, because > if one message changes or is added to the mbox file, the file is > considered new, and backed up completely every time. Finally, Seamonkey > Mail slows down, when the mbox files grow (I admit: files must be REAL > big, before the speed penalty becomes evident). > > So I think, support for more modern mail formats would definitely > have significant benefits for many of us.
See bug #58308 at <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58308>. Originally submitted 11 years ago, it seems there might actually be some slow progress in implementing this enhancement. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> On occasion, I might filter and ignore all newsgroup messages posted through GoogleGroups via Google's G2/1.0 user agent because of spam from that source. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
