D 1.076 and 2.061 release

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Wed Jan 2 20:48:04 PST 2013


On 1/2/2013 8:15 PM, Marco Nembrini wrote:
> On 03.01.2013 08:40, Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>> The most miserable of all is Microsoft Outlook Express, which stores all
>> the info in hidden directories that are down a long chain of paths
>> filled with directory names that are GUID identifiers.
>>
>> Then, the mail files themselves are in some secret binary format.
>
> I hate OE, it uses a single file for each mail folder, and when this file gets
> bigger than 2GB (easily possible for the inbox folder and a few years of email
> with attachments), it cannot open it anymore. So what does is do? It creates a
> new empty file with the same name, nuking all your emails.

Yowsa, looks like I dodged a bullet with that one.

Back in the 90's, I used to use an email program called ccremote. It encrypted 
the email folders. I lost a lot of email when I forgot the password :-(



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