[pmmail-list] Leaving PMMail for Thunderbird

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On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 02:32:40PM -0500, KTS wrote:
> 
> Wednesday December 31 2003 10:41, Tim Roberts wrote to All:
> 
>  >> It uses a single mail file, like other OE imitations. One corrupted
>  >> message will corrupt your whole mail file. No good for high volume
>  >> use.
> 
>  TR> Wrong.  It uses one human-readable Unix-style mailbox file per 
>  TR> folder.
>  TR> Easy to manage, easy to backup, easy to fix when things go wrong.
> 
> Not wrong! It uses a single (sendmail-style) message file, which gets 
> corrupted easily and gets slow before it completely jams. It is 
> probably ok for small volumes, but if/when it gets written to 
> constantly, it is a disaster waiting to happen.

The fact that sendmail successfully handles terabytes of mail each day
in mail files in exactly the same format shows just how silly this 
concern is.  They do NOT get corrupted easily, and if they do, they 
are easy to fix by hand.  Eudora and Pegasus do exactly the same thing,
and no one would suggest that those are "small volume" mail programs.

Outlook uses an internal format that is impossible to edit by hand.  
One trashed byte renders the whole mailbox useless, and largely 
irrecoverable.  This is entirely unlike Thunderbird.

You are entitled to your personal biases, but in this case your FUD
is unwarranted.
-- 
- Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
  Providenza & Boeklheide, Inc.
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