Instead of deleting it, it should be marked "deleted" by renaming only.
If it is then required, so it can be recovered. This directory can be
deleted by another control process that searches the mbox files for
references.
What has become of the question that attachments are not only saved as
separate files? (mdbox-files over 2 MB from 17.03.2014)
Am 07.03.2015 um 17:33 schrieb Timo Sirainen:
... When mail is deleted, the hard link is deleted. If the link count
had been 2, the original attachment file was deleted also.
