Thunderbird question

[Joe Zeff]

On 07/05/2015 12:45 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote:
>
> With mbox, any time you remove a message from a folder (either deleting
> it or moving it to another folder), the entire mbox file has to be
> re-written.  If you delete/move a message from a very large folder, that
> can generate a lot of disk activity, and creates a long window in which
> an interruption can corrupt the folder.  With Maildir, all operations
> should be atomic.  An interruption should never destroy an entire folder.

Not so.  The message is still there, but it's marked in the index as 
deleted.  The file isn't re-written until it's compacted.