[pmmail-list] alright, I've had enough ...

[Rod Whitworth]

On Sat, 14 May 2005 21:22:09 -0500, Larry Alkoff wrote:

>Thunderbird is being actively maintained and has solved a lot of 
>problems I had with PMMail.  In addition, Thunderbird opens a directory 
>with a few thousand messages _much_ faster than PMMail because it stores 
>email messages in the industry standard mbox format which can be used by 
>just about any mail program around  - I'm talking a small fraction of a 
>second.

>You won't be sorry if you change.


Unless something ever corrupts your mbox or an anti-virus thingy "deletes the infected file" which is your mbox.

Everything is a trade-off and the "industry standard mbox" is now just one of the "standards" because, at the 
mailserver in a busy operation, the industry is changing to maildirs (directories with a file per message - like 
PMM) to avoid the corruption mentioned above as well as the file-locking that locks users out whilst a new 
message arrives, the delay during message deletion (copy file up to start of msg to be deleted, skip the msg, 
continue to end, delete old mbox, rename new one) and other issues.

Very little of that affects the MUA except for the corruption=loss deal but it is important to know that the mbox 
"standard" is not the only method and likely it isn't even the majority leader by now.

There is a plug-in for Tbird that allows the saving of messages in discrete files for those who would like copies of 
critical message to be secured. The mbox is still the message store for Tbird itself.



>From the land "down under": Australia.
Do we look <umop apisdn> from up over?

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