Re: inbox without an out!

From: Julio C. Perez (jcperez1@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 05:42:24 -0400

On Tue, 14 Jul 1998 18:32:06 +0200,
in article:
3091 galactus@stack.nl (Arnoud "Galactus" Engelfriet) wrote (in part):
>In article <Kf2p1wfWt26I092yn@ix.netcom.com>,
>jcperez1@ix.netcom.com (Julio C. Perez) wrote:
>> So if these codes represent the absolute number of bytes in the
>> msg, then how does Yarn keep track of the status of the msg (read, old, etc.)?
>
>It stores this information in the X-Status header in the message. If
>you look at the mailbox with a file viewer, you can see this header
>with the same values that appear in the message window in Yarn.
...
This sounds like one can manually change the status of a message
with little trouble.

...
>So if you read a message, the folder has to be rewritten in order to
>insert or change the status letter.
...
This is probably one of those critical periods when the folder file
can be corupted... say by a computer crash or reboot.

Thanks a lot for this info. The next time that one of my folder
files becomes corupted or I wish to change the status of a bunch of files,
I'll have some idea of how to go about it. Of course, those initial four
bytes which keep track of the absolute message size can prove to be a serious
block to direct manipulation of the folder files. It would be nice to be
able to regenerate this value at will also.

...

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Julio C. Perez <jcperez1@ix.netcom.com>, <julio@siembra.com>
Access Technology Consultant
New York State Commission for the Blind 
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