Re: [Evolution] Filing system

[Michael Wood <wood kingsley co za>]

Hi

On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 09:50:16AM -0700, Ray Lee wrote:
> > I'll let others do the flaming, but well, an indexed flat
> > file isn't really any performance problem at all
[snip]
> > (and you can even repair it with vi!).
>
> I have to point out that this fails the "Simple enough for my
> mother to use" litmus test. It should never get to a state
> where it needs to be repaired in the first place. What's odd
> is that I've heard this argument from several different people
> now. Have you really needed to hand-edit your mbox to fix it?

Well, I have needed to edit mboxes before.  Netscape mail
(version 2? or 3?) had a buffer overflow which was triggered by
long subjects, causing it to crash.  Also, MS Outlook (97?  I
don't know about other versions) choked on messages with strange
headers.  (I think it was something like: "Reply-To: <>")

OK, so that was an mbox on the POP server, not the "Inbox" on
the client, but it's still useful to be able to fix things
sometimes.  I do think a Maildir might be better than an mbox,
but maybe I just don't know enough ;)

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