On 4/6/24 03:08, Chris M wrote:
I am needing a "refresher course" on mail clients that use the .mbox
format to store emails.
It's been years since I've used this kind of mail client.
Is there any "dangers" I need to know about? Like, keeping the mailbox a
certain size?
or a certain amount of emails per folder etc?
The last client I used, before I went FULL TIME LINUX, was Eudora 7.1 on
Windows 10. And you had
to keep the .mbx files TINY TINY TINY or else, you'd face corruption.
I always go offline, and then compact my folders after I get done
reading emails.
Right now my "2024 Archives" folder is at:
Number Of Messages: 4776
Size: 300 MB
I do not know about the mbox file format in email applications, but, if
you want a powerful email client, as I believe that I have previously
stated, I use, for downloading, storing, and, archiving email, the most
powerful email client that I have found - alpine, previously known as pine.
The folder properties for the applicable stored messages folder, show
"Total count of files: 13720
Total size of files: 24.5GB"
I think that I have a couple of hundred filters (it could be more),
involving some thousands of filter parameter field values.
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Bret Busby
Armadale
Western Australia
(UTC+0800)
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