M2 (Opera) Re: What are people using for MUA's nowadays?

[Timothy J. Luoma]

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