On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Clifton Royston wrote: > > When it happens, I've only ever seen the first few lines of the mailbox > > get corrupted. Usually trimming down to the first "From x@y" does the > > trick. > > With pine, at least, I've several times seen message corruption > scattered all the way through the file due to UIDLs getting updated > into "random" places in the headers, and have had to hand-edit it and > scrap large numbers of messages. I tend to assume the worst in this > scenario.
I don't set qpopper to write the UIDLs back to the file, which is proablby why I've never had it happen. The cpu cost of recalculating UIDLs on-the-fly is fairly small these days. If Qpopper has to generate these and write them back, it will generate a temp file too. AB
