284170 - Mozilla 2.0 platform > drop mbox-format

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 58308

(MailNews Core :: Database, enhancement)

Description

[Alex Ihrig [:Thunderbird_Mail_DE]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1
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Would it be possible to get rid of the mbox format?

Maybe this format is a standard in the (old) unix world, but is it still
necessary to use this format? Today we've modern file systems and enough
harddisk space to have one file per mail instead of one file per folder (mbox
format).

By getting rid of the mbox format, we could improve the use of profiles in LAN
and we would have less problems with antivirus software. Today many antivirus
applications are deleting the entire inbox (or another mbox file), when
"repairing" oder deleting a virus.

The switch to the Mozilla 2.0 platform could be the (only) chance to switch the
file format.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

isn't this a duplicate of bug 58308?

Comment 2

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

marking as dup per bug 58308 comment 35

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 58308 ***