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Data loss possibly due to maildir format

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Rick
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I have been using maildir as the message storage format for six months. I have known that the implementation is not complete and that there are several known bugs, so using it is risky.

My reports that I have not experienced any problems may have encouraged other people to use maildir, so now I must report a problem.

Twice recently, my IMAP inbox did not show all messages. Repairing the folder worked the first time. The second time, repairing the folder causes all messages in the folder to disappear. Worse, it seems that it deleted the inbox file in the file system.

I do not know if this data loss was due to maildir. It may have been.

I have returned to using mbox.

I have been using maildir as the message storage format for six months. I have known that the implementation is not complete and that there are several known bugs, so using it is risky. My reports that I have not experienced any problems may have encouraged other people to use maildir, so now I must report a problem. Twice recently, my IMAP inbox did not show all messages. Repairing the folder worked the first time. The second time, repairing the folder causes all messages in the folder to disappear. Worse, it seems that it deleted the inbox file in the file system. I do not know if this data loss was due to maildir. It may have been. I have returned to using mbox.

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Matt
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There is no inbox file in the file system, only an index as a MSF file, say inbox.msf. The data for all current mail is stored in the CUR folder under the account in the profile.

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Matt said
There is no inbox file in the file system, only an index as a MSF file, say inbox.msf. The data for all current mail is stored in the CUR folder under the account in the profile.

I should have said "INBOX folder", not "inbox file". Each message folder in Thunderbird is associated with a folder in the file system that holds a CUR and a TMP sub-folder. When I lost data, the INBOX folder with its CUR and TMP sub-folders disappeared.

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