On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Phil Roffe wrote:
We had a problem with this several months ago. The alarming aspect of the corruption is when it occurs at the beginning of an email (i.e. ^@^@^@From:...). Emails can be lost/appended to the bottom of the previous email.
Isn't that the delimiter format for one of the other mailbox formats that is a bit like mbox?
We had several applications accessing the mbox (Dovecot and Pine mainly). Reconfiguring Pine to use IMAP (using Dovecot) rather than write to the mbox directly appears to have fixed the problem and we have had no corruption for several months now.
That would make sense; I think Pine (via cclient) could use that mailbox format.
... I think is it "MMDF" described this page:
http://www.washington.edu/imap/documentation/formats.txt.html
Jethro.
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