Re: mbox file size limitations?

On 17.7.2018 22:30, Erik Kangas, Ph.D. wrote:
>> For MIX no broken mailbox repair tool exists

> Mark has made available mixrbld and mixdfix=A0tools for fixing indexes an=
d message files.

Thanks, I has not been aware of it.

May be I will try MIX in the future.

On 17.7.2018 22:46, Tim Mooney wrote:
> We all prefer "simple" where it solves the need, but huge mbox format fil=
es with tens of thousands of messages are quite inefficient to parse.

Well, our mail service is not designed for sharing of large data (e-mail =

itself has not been designed for something like it). We offer other ways =

to share files for users wishing such service.

Moreover, our mail service is not intended to be used as data storage or =

long term data backup/archive.

With those restriction of "acceptable use" (compliant) mailboxes with =

tens of thousands of messages are rare.

Yes, you got it - I'm not a free-mail provider. ;-)

On 18.7.2018 0:22, David B Funk wrote:
> and in any case that "B{" is not a smile-face.

Oh, I even didn't recognized that it has to be a smile-like symbol ...

Dan

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