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Date:	Fri, 7 Mar 2008 12:00:20 -0800
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Utility to _merge_ mailbox files ? '

In <47D17D35.1010205@charter.net>, on 03/07/08
at 11:24 AM, Ray Davison said:

Hi,

>That is my concern; that if we used anything outside of the Mozilla
>family the result would likely no longer be a mail file.

The Mozilla apps use an almost standard mailbox file format. At worst,
the merged files will lose some status. See

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Combining_two_profiles

for Seamonkey how to info. This page contains links to Thunderbird
specific how to.

>I have seen
>mail files that had messages that could be read with a text editor but
>some did not show in the mail client.

This can happen if the message header gets corrupted. The mbox format
depends on valid message headers to find the message boundaries.

>If you turn off threading and sort by date the dupes will usually jump
>out at you.

True enough.

>And a small side issue; if you let a file collect a few thousand
>messages, it may choke if you try to delete them all. Choke; work very
>slow or even freeze.

This really should not be much of a problem as long as the mbox files are
under a GB or so. Every message file format has advantages and
disadvantages. When using the mbox format, it is important to compact the
mbox files after deleting large numbers of messages. Otherwise, the
message bodies are not really gone and the file may get excessively large.

Steven

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