From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 27 10:09:18 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BAC316A4B3 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2003 10:09:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from b.mail.peak.org (b.mail.peak.org [69.59.192.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51FF544014 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2003 10:09:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luomat@peak.org) Received: from [69.59.192.81] ([69.59.192.81]) by b.mail.peak.org (8.12.10/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h8RH9G63011246 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Sat, 27 Sep 2003 17:09:17 GMT Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 10:09:16 -0700 (PDT) From: "Timothy J. Luoma" X-X-Sender: luomat@a.shell.peak.org To: Brett Glass In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20030927105645.02ccceb0@localhost> Message-ID: 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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Score: -2 () EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_PINE X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.29 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: M2 (Opera) Re: What are people using for MUA's nowadays? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 17:09:18 -0000 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