On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 1:06 AM, srinivas devaki <mr.eightnotei...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Dec 9, 2015 4:45 PM, "Steven D'Aprano" <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> >> Maildir is also *much* safer too. With mbox, a single error when writing >> email to the mailbox will likely corrupt *all* emails from that point on, >> so potentially every email in the mailbox. With maildir, a single error >> when writing will, at worst, corrupt one email. >> > > may be with frequent backup of mbox file and storing checksum to each email > will be faster and safe too. > I wonder if they already do that.
Yes, because we all know that frequent checking is better than prevention. That's why MySQL's myisamchk command makes it so much better than PostgreSQL's transactional DDL. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
