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Re: thunderbird privacy...
From: Stan Bubrouski <stan.bubrouski () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 13:18:57 -0400
This issue has been known for years and affected the pre-thunderbird mail client that was part of the Mozilla suite. It's nothing new. There's been bug reports filed for this in Mozilla's bugzilla probably as far back as '99, and to my knowledge they do not consider it a problem. BTW in case anyone wasn't aware (this is common knowledge I think) you can move mailboxs between Ximian Evolution and Mozilla Thunderbird seemlessly if you were ever looking to switch between the two. Best Regards, sb On 6/21/05, Bill Weiss <houdini+full-disclosure () clanspum net> wrote:
Thomas Springer(tuevsec () gmx net)@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 salary a poorly disguised manipulation of the word slavery. -- The Devil's Dictionary X _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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- Re: thunderbird privacy... Adam Neale (Jun 21)
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- Re: thunderbird privacy... Bill Weiss (Jun 21)
- Re: thunderbird privacy... Stan Bubrouski (Jun 21)
- Re: thunderbird privacy... Rodrigo Barbosa (Jun 21)
- Re: thunderbird privacy... Bill Weiss (Jun 21)
- Re: thunderbird privacy... Wade Woolwine (Jun 21)