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

[Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 04:47:23PM +0000, Bill Weiss wrote:
> 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.

Yes, but he said mbx-format, not mbox-format. mbx-format is a different
format, and also comes from the unix-world. Very ancient too.

Just for further exemplification, EXIM (the MTA) supports MBOX format,
maildir format, and mbx format. See:

http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.40/doc/html/spec_26.html#IX1986

About mbx-format implementation on EXIM 4.40.

On the other hand, I doubt it is the exactly the same format used by
Thunderbird.

- -- 
Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
"Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur"
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