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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 17/01/2013 8:46 AM, Kent James
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What I propose is that instead of doing this, we just admit that
local mbox folders are limited in size to 4GB, make sure that any
usage of mbox folders does not allow >4GB operations, and put
our efforts instead to finishing the remaining issues in maildir
support. Bug 793865 would be resolved to WONTFIX. Perhaps this
represents the existing understanding, and I am just out of touch.<br>
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Admirable suggestion<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:50F726D4.4070204@caspia.com" type="cite">Existing
4GB bugs would be resolved by error reporting, preventing
operations from occurring if they would cause >4GB operations.
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Perhaps a message advising to change to maildir could be
implemented, plus a small wizard that just does the conversion and
could be invoked to lead the user through. As there is no conversion
code as yet, the wizard development could fill the dual role.<br>
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If you go forward, I am happy to spend some time testing as I think
maildir is one of the great advances in Thunderbird for years.<br>
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One thing I would like to float is a rebuild index mechanism. One
of the truths behind maildir is people are going to fiddle in those
folders adding and removing mails. Anti virus programs will also be
out and about. Instead of leaving all these use cases to come up
with a way to invoke a index rebuild we should have a mechanism
similar to the parent.lock that its presence or absence invokes an
MSF rebuild. Simple and clean being the criteria, so anti virus
vendors can implement it without having to understand much more than
delete file or create file, and power users can invoke it without
writing a line of code.<br>
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Matt<br>
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