maildir

[Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>]

Avery Pennarun wrote:
> I've become a real fan of Maildir since I first ran into it in qmail.  It's
> just such a better idea, and you don't have to quote lines beginning with
> >From when they're delivered...

I looked at installing maildir when I installed qmail but.. each message in
a maildir eats an inode and 4k of disk space at a minimum. I have mailbox
archives that contain 200,000 messages or so. Doesn't anyone using maildir
run out of inodes? Or do you go back to mbox format to archive your mail?

-- 
see shy jo