Interviewed by CNN on 09/09/2011 15:11, Alex Baer told the world: > Because the functionality is there, I used it, and created a multi- > level hierarchy of folders, sub-folders and sub-sub-folders to organise > my mail. This may or may not have been a great idea, but it became a > huge problem, when after a crash the index files were damaged, and the > program was unable to repair them, and all the structure information > about the hierarchy of folders was lost.
Uhhh... *what* structure information about the hierarchy? Seamonkey doesn't use *anything* like that. Nothing like the notorious folders.dbx in Outlook Express. The structure of the subfolders tree is implicit in the filesystem folders. You can just drop a mbox file anywhere in the tree and it will figure it out. > What is more, the pseudo-hierarchy can be resolved only by Mozilla > clients. Other programs don't know what to do the index files. Now, > opening an mbox file with another mail client, and then opening the > file again with a Mozilla client may also cause index file corruption, > in my experience. So this is a very fragile approach. > > As long, as there are index files simulating hierarchies, that are not > really there, for virtual folders containing thousands of emails, this > is a harmful functionality. The hierachies *are there*. They are the filesystem folders. It's very, very simple. This simplicity is what makes the mbox system very robust. > Pseudo-hierarchies should not be supported in combination with mbox, > IMHO, as this approach is bound to cause trouble --- it's only a > question of time. > > And, BTW, a quick research of the web will tell you, that I am by far > not the only one who experienced this sort of problem. > > I very much like Seamonkey, it's functionality, it's UI etc. But I need > a more robust mail client. With maildir (or mh) support, Seamonkey Mail > could be it, but I don't trust it, as long as it only supports mbox > with index files (and again: the index files are the problem, actually, > not mbox as such). The index files hold *no* important information about the structure of the folder tree. You can delete *all* the index files (the .msf files) and Thunderbird/Seamonkey will rebuild the tree pretty much instantly. The only role of the index files is to speed up the messages listing for each folder. -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... Sent from my Strawberry. *Added by TagZilla 0.066.2 running on Seamonkey 2.3.3 * Get it at http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmailnews.html#tagzilla _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
