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I don't think Thunderbird is good example here.. It stores inboxes in mbox-like format, then some metadata in very weird .msf format, and on top on that SQLite

I don't think Thunderbird is good example here.. It stores inboxes in mbox-like format, then some metadata in very weird .msf format, and on top on that SQLite database for search indexing. And it has some bewildering bugs like mixing up titles and content from two different messages, or slapping on messages date pulled from thin air..

cesarb 7y ago
> or slapping on messages date pulled from thin air.. IME, this happens when the message doesn't have a date (that is, Date header missing or invalid). There's an open request on bugzilla to use the last Received date in these cases.