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On Sunday 06 October 2002 19:54, Thomas Zander wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 06:48:10PM +0200, Ingo Kl?cker wrote:
> > If you have a better idea how we should handle this situation
> > please speak up.
>
> if you delete a message, set the 'deleted' flag in the mailbox. This
> means no loss in email-state.
> Second on regeneration of the index you should merge instead of
> overwrite the index file.  Existing messages should take the old
> status, just update the positioning in the file.

Thanks for your suggestions.

> Maybe a check in change of filesize is more important in these
> cases...

True. But there's still the chance that the filesize is the same=20
although the contents of the file was changed. And as the result of=20
such an unnoticed change could be the loss of all messages in a folder=20
we simply can't risk that.

Anyway, our preferred mail folder format is now maildir which doesn't=20
have these problems.

Regards,
Ingo

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