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Re: Getting data out of Mozilla Thunderbird with Python?

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Subject Re: Getting data out of Mozilla Thunderbird with Python?
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On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 1:06 AM, srinivas devaki
<mr.eightnoteight@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 9, 2015 4:45 PM, "Steven D'Aprano" <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
>>
>> Maildir is also *much* safer too. With mbox, a single error when writing
>> email to the mailbox will likely corrupt *all* emails from that point on,
>> so potentially every email in the mailbox. With maildir, a single error
>> when writing will, at worst, corrupt one email.
>>
>
> may be with frequent backup of mbox file and storing checksum to each email
> will be faster and safe too.
> I wonder if they already do that.

Yes, because we all know that frequent checking is better than
prevention. That's why MySQL's myisamchk command makes it so much
better than PostgreSQL's transactional DDL.

ChrisA

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Getting data out of Mozilla Thunderbird with Python? Anthony Papillion <anthony@cajuntechie.org> - 2015-12-08 12:21 -0600
  Re: Getting data out of Mozilla Thunderbird with Python? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-12-08 19:42 +0100
    Re: Getting data out of Mozilla Thunderbird with Python? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-12-08 20:31 +0000
    META email [was Re: Getting data out of Mozilla Thunderbird with Python?] Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-12-09 18:43 +1100
  Re: Getting data out of Mozilla Thunderbird with Python? Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2015-12-09 09:03 +0100
    Re: Getting data out of Mozilla Thunderbird with Python? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-12-09 22:11 +1100
      Re: Getting data out of Mozilla Thunderbird with Python? srinivas devaki <mr.eightnoteight@gmail.com> - 2015-12-09 19:36 +0530
      Re: Getting data out of Mozilla Thunderbird with Python? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-12-10 01:15 +1100
      Re: Getting data out of Mozilla Thunderbird with Python? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-12-09 17:25 +0000
      Re: Getting data out of Mozilla Thunderbird with Python? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2015-12-09 23:23 -0700
        Re: Getting data out of Mozilla Thunderbird with Python? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-12-10 14:26 +0100

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