M2 (Opera) Re: What are people using for MUA's nowadays?
Timothy J. Luoma
luomat at peak.org
Sat Sep 27 10:09:18 PDT 2003
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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