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For novices, fix reliability and usability

For novices, fix reliability and usability

Posted Jan 29, 2008 9:37 UTC (Tue) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454)
In reply to: For novices, fix reliability and usability by Cato
Parent article: The beginning of Thunderbird 3 planning

Data storage reliability could be dramatically improved by dropping mbox for maildir at last
(it would make imap support more natural too BTW)

maildir support has been requested since 2000 but unfortunately it seems not to be on
thunderbird authors radar, even after all the mbox robustness problems people predicted then
materialised

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58308

Every thunderbird user with data storage problems should vote on this bug.


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