Re: Help required - noticing corruption

[Jack <ostroffjh sbcglobal net>]

One of the questions Michelle asked was whether there was any way Balsa  
(or any email software) could notice and warn about corruption in the  
underlying email store (whether mbox, MailDir, or MH).  I've been  
thinking about this for a bit, and I wonder if there isn't something  
that might help, at least a little.  What information does Balsa keep  
about the state of the message store?  Number of messages per mailbox?   
Other details?  I know I have sometimes manually manipulated the files  
(such as deleting a message with bad HTML that Balsa [actually gtkHTML]  
choked on) from an mbox file, and Balsa (if it even noticed the change)  
just accepted the new state of affairs.   If Balsa DOES notice any such  
changes, would it be reasonable (based on a configuration setting,  
perhaps) for it to notify the user before simply resetting it's index  
information?    Am I totally off base here, or might this be worth  
discussing further?

Thanks.

Jack