Re: [Full-disclosure] thunderbird privacy...

[Bill Weiss <houdini+full-disclosure@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thomas Springer(tuevsec@xxxxxxx)@Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 02:08:41PM +0200:
> Tunderbird uses for every folder a pseudo-database with a big data-file 
> contining every mail and a corresponding index-file (*.msf, for 
> thunderbird) - just like every harddisk does. if you delete a message, 
> it gets deleted only in the index - this is fast and you won't see the 
> msg anymore in your app.
> 
> this mbx-format is an ancient, but especially in the unix-world still 
> very common format to store emails.

Just a note:

This isn't the same as the common "mbox" format that UNIX mailers tend to
use.  mbox is a flat file of email, and deleting an email removes it from
the file.  What Thunderbird is doing is different.

Outlook does something very similar, at least through Outlook 2000.

-- 
Bill Weiss
 
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