One reason I use these mail clients - and I've had more problem with db-based In fact, they've been exceptionally stable. Mozilla/TB mail clients (and Eudora), in my own usage, or providing end-user I haven't encountered the problem in supporting several small businesses on I understand the theory, but does it happen in practice? In other words, is > Currently Thunderbird can lose lots of mails when crashing during a write Oops, I posted this to the Penelope version of the bug ( bug 364808) by mistake. Recently we were introduced to Public Domain SQLite.
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A while back we were introduced to the License Free Maildir format. Originally we implemented mail storage using mbox. The MAC users could create their Spotlight search capable mail backend, and the Windows users could have an alternative to the default mbox file.īased on the feedback generated by both bugs - 29008, it seems to me that creating a pluggable framework for email storage would be a good move because it would also eliminate this same discussion in the future when mail storage format X becomes everyone's favorite way of storing emails. Having a 'pluggable' mail storage system would eliminate any arguments over what system is better.
I would propose that the Thunderbird developers make it easier for the community to create their own mail storage backends. There are obvious advantages and disadvantages to using either SQLite or Maildir. I support Thunderbird moving to a different mail storage back-end.
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