On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 16:32 +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > So, what's the reason mbox is still the default in Debian? > Among other gains, data loss because of mboxo would be gone. Just posted some reasons[0] (but as I see now, some of them have already been named by others... But in general... I think whether a better alternative is available, and whether Debian should switch to it, doesn't matter at all here: These programs still offer mbox, even if we decided to change all defaults to maildir... people could still shoot themselves into their feet (without their own fault). It's like a serious flaw would have been found in gzip and people would say... oh don't complain... there's already the much better/newer bzip2 or xz. Further, e.g. for Thunderbird there IS currently NO way to avoid mbox... even when having e.g. a IMAP server locally that actually stores your mail, TB seems to temporary store mails as mbox. > [3]. Out of a habit, I guess. With current disk sizes, no one should care > about a few gigs here, a few gigs there. Unless you need to read a mbox > linearly, that is. I guess you've never run a really really large mail archive, have you? Cheers, Chris. [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/11/msg00853.html
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