Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 10:09:16 -0700 (PDT) From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: M2 (Opera) Re: What are people using for MUA's nowadays? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0309271000550.31612@a.shell.peak.org> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20030927105645.02ccceb0@localhost> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20030926233937.03b9fee0@localhost> <20030922104213.L335@www.bluecirclesoft.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20030926233937.03b9fee0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030927105645.02ccceb0@localhost>
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On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Brett Glass wrote: > At 10:52 AM 9/27/2003, Timothy J. Luoma wrote: > > >M2 stores the messages in plain-text format. > > Ah, but there appears to be metadata that's not plain text. Be that as it may, you wrote "The problem is that if this big, monolithic, proprietary-format database gets corrupted, you're hosed. You can lose everything." That is false. You will not lose email with M2. In the worst-case scenario you can still 'cd' to the directory and 'cat' it all back together into one Berkeley style mbox. If there is metadata in non-plain-text format, that is another matter. Yes I suppose it is possible for that to get corrupted. However I believe that M2 also has a built-in function to re-index when needed. Even if it doesn't, you could still make it into one large mbox as before and then import back into Opera. And let me say that I have been using M2 for as long as it has been available and never had to do that. TjL
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