[pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#691469: fetchmail apprently uses mboxo format, which irrecoverably corrupts mail

[Roger Lynn]

On 26/10/2012 02:24, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> This is basically the same as Debian bugs #690741 and #633799.
> I used severity critical, as the mboxo format causes irrecoverable
> mail corruption, which is unknown to most users.

I don't think the severity of critical is justified. This is an artefact of
the way email has been stored for decades. Just because Christoph was not
previously aware of it does not suddenly make it a critical bug. This is
also the way mail is handled by the default MTA in a standard Debian
installation. Not that I'm saying it shouldn't be improved, just that it
hasn't yet caused the world to end.

Roger

(Just a Fetchmail user. Not speaking for Debian or Fetchmail)