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Re: procmail and Large File Support



On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 04:27:48AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 10:23 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 07:45:47PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 00:53 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > > > I have several reports saying procmail does not support mbox folders
> > > > larger than 2GB. Questions:
> > > 
> > > OT here, but WTF are people smoking, to have 2GB mbox files?
> > 
> > Consider a spam-bin folder that you don't split by month or whatever and
> > don't check very often.
> 
> Maildir?

Not everyone likes maildir; I gave up on it after experimenting with it
and realising that making it harder for myself to use standard Unix
text-processing tools on my mailboxes was just too annoying. This is
true of spam-bin folders more than other folders, if anything.

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]



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