Anno domini 2021 Mon, 28 Jun 15:24:56 -0500 J Leslie Turriff scripsit: > On 2021-06-28 13:09:16 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > > Anno domini 2021 Mon, 28 Jun 17:54:15 +0000 > > > > dep via tde-users scripsit: > > > What mailbox format is being used during the failures, maildir or mbox? > > > Might make a difference. (I've always thought maildir is safer than mbox, > > > because one maildir file gets corrupted and one message is lost, while > > > one mbox bit gets flipped and all the messages are lost.) > > > > That's a good pont. I use maildir just for that reason. But maildir manages > > flags via filenames, so it might be a filename gone wild (as Michael said > > in the other mail). > > > > Nik > > > The questions then are, must the filenames contain only ASCII characters, and if so, is > there a tool to scan for such non-conforming filenames? In theory the characterset and filename format used by maildir is well defined, e.g.: 1619077924.27553.FnAjk:2,RS 1624538432.5263.6czTL:2,S where the part till ":" is the mails uniq id, "2" is the version (there are rumours of a "1"), and flags (P)assed, (R)eplied, (S)een, (T)rashed, (D)raft. I think dovecot uses 26 char fixed lenght names and small chars for not set flags - IMO that's why dovecot and kmail cannot use the same directory tree. So question is what goes wrong with the indices? IMO these are special to kmail. I think they got introduced ages ago to speed up the scanning of the directory tree. Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
