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Response to email clients query regarding mbox

From Bret Busby <bret@busby.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Response to email clients query regarding mbox
Date 2024-06-03 21:20 +0200
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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.



....
Bret Busby
Armadale
Western Australia
(UTC+0800)
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