Re: Help required - noticing corruption

[Ildar Mulyukov <ildar users sourceforge net>]

On 29.09.2012 06:07:08, Jack wrote:
> 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?

1. Mailboxes _should_ be modified externally by  
[MDAs](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_delivery_agent), though this  
point is still faulty in Balsa.
2. Let [DLP  
software](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_loss_prevention_software)  
do its job and leave Balsa alone.

IMHO though.
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