Comments on: Mail 2.0′s three different file types

By: Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » What’s in your Mail folder?

Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » What’s in your Mail folder? — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 12:22:49 +0000

[...] You can read about the different emlx files Mail.app uses in another entry. [...]

By: John Speno

John Speno — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 13:17:20 +0000

Sorry, I got nothing. It was just a guess and it sounds like a bad one. :-)

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 22:44:02 +0000

Doesn’t look like it to me, examining messages my own mail folders. What does examining yours reveal?

By: John Speno

John Speno — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 18:12:14 +0000

Is it just the messages that have attachments in that case?

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 02:01:26 +0000

Hi John. I considered that. But wouldn’t all the messages in any given, cached folder be partial.emlx files? Why is it just some of them? That’s what puzzles me.

By: John Speno

John Speno — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 01:28:30 +0000

partial.emlx could be a cached message minus attachments. Caching of attachments is an option, but it doesn’t have to be on. Just a guess.

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 00:46:42 +0000

Very interesting.

I’ve just checked my one POP account – which I should have done before! I always forget that there are people who still use POP ;-) – and you’re absolutely right. Attachments are not stripped out of POP account emlx files, only IMAP ones.

Thanks for pointing that out.

By: mc

mc — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 18:30:00 +0000

Sorry to say, but perhpas this only shows up in IMAP contexts. I use POP because our FirstClass system is dumb dumb dumb as an IMAP system, and I have no such emlxpart files. I wish I did, sometimes…