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Re: Getting data out of Mozilla Thunderbird with Python?

From srinivas devaki <mr.eightnoteight@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: Getting data out of Mozilla Thunderbird with Python?
Date 2015-12-09 19:36 +0530
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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.

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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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