It's primarily for debugging, and I don't see it being used in a high volume environment.

What triggered the thought is that I suspect I may have lost the bodies of a couple of messages during an expunge, but because I don't have the previous state of the mbox file, I have no way of verifying my concern, and certainly no way to try and recreate it.

And yes, I'm using mbox files, because I have many years of mail stored in them, and I'm not quite ready to convert them to another format.

Tim

On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 11:01, Charlie Brady wrote:

On 12 May 2003, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 02:05, Tim Hunt wrote:
> > Would it be possible to keep a backup copy of an mbox mail file any time it 
> > needs to be substantionally rebuilt - for an example before an expunge. This 
> > behaviour could be controlled by the config file, since it would most likely 
> > only be used in development and testing environments.
> 
> If it's only for debugging, I guess I could then just save a copy of it.

Presumably the other reason you'd want it would be for mailbox integrity. 
But if you are concerned about that, you'd be using maildir, wouldn't you?

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Charlie