Hide a message?

[Jude DaShiell]

I got cured of mbox when I had malware infect my spool file.  There were
a few thousand messages I wanted to go through in that mbox but clamav
quarrantined the whole mbox file and I couldn't read the messages that
weren't infected and never learned which of the messages actually got
infected either.  Now, with MAILDIR, each message gets stored in its own
file and for that reason had I run clamav in that environment clamav
would have only quarrantined the individual infected messages and not
all of them.

On Fri, 14 Dec 2018, Tim Chase wrote:

> Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2018 08:37:28
> From: Tim Chase <mutt at tim.thechases.com>
> To: mutt-users at mutt.org
> Subject: Re: Hide a message?
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> On 2018-12-13 22:05, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> > mbox still serves my needs and has never failed me.  why would I
> > want to invest time and effort to change to something (anything)
> > else?  maildir does not "work better" as I can see.
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> Perhaps you're not putting strains on mbox that others have.  I've
> found that mbox works well in certain conditions:
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> 1) only one reader/writer (no other scripts/tools touching your mail
> store) on local file-systems
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> 2) particularly well if your mboxes are mostly append-only (it tends
> to perform worse and have more risk of data-loss if you're modifying
> messages in the middle).  The one-big-file-of-mail also compresses
> nicely if stored on a ZFS volume.
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> I have had mbox files break when on NFS shares and when multiple
> programs are writing to them (especially when removing messages from
> the middle of the file).  Sometimes I'm lucky and it's not grievous
> and I only lose a message or two or things get sheared removing the
> intra-message markers, putting one message at the end of a previous
> message.
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