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:

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On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 02:05, Tim Hunt wrote:

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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?

-- Charlie