[Alpine-info] display of html content

[Mike Miller]

On Fri, 18 Nov 2011, Doug Barton wrote:


>> Another possibility to deal with it is to start alpine with a wrapper 

>> script with the content

>>

>>    find -L <maildir> -name \*.msf -exec /bin/rm -f {} +

>>    /usr/bin/alpine

>

> That's a really bad idea, and is going to cause thunderbird to spend 

> time recreating them every time it starts.



Here's a question about that -- I should have thought of it before I sent 
the last message:  Doesn't Thunderbird have to recreate the .msf files 
anyway?  I see that there is one .msf file per mail file and the .msf file 
seems to have information about the contents of the mail file.  If I am 
changing the mail files in Alpine, or because new messages are entering 
the system, doesn't Thunderbird have to update the .msf files?  And 
doesn't that mean recreating them from scratch?  It probably uses date 
stamps to decide if an update is needed.

Mike