Re: Maildir vs. mailbox
I think these two link will help you:
http://www.reedmedia.net/misc/mail/mailbox-formats.html
http://www.courier-mta.org/mbox-vs-maildir/
Perhaps you should do some benachmarking on your machines to compare
mbox with maildir under your configuration - if you've got the resources.
Tomàs Núñez Lirola <tomas@asertel.es> wrote on Wed, 28 May 2003 12:49:03 +0200:
> Looking docs, I've decided to move mail server from sendmail+qpop to
> postfix+courier. And now I wonder if I should move to maildir format or stay
> mbox format. I've found a lot of scripts to convert (mb2md-2 looks pretty
> well), but I've not found any site explaining why should I move to maildir.
>
> I suppose it's easier to open a mail in a maildir than do the same on a mbox
> (If the mbox is <20MB, qpop takes 80% of CPU for a while fetching it), but I
> do not know advantages/inconvenients.
>
> Any comments about this? Any site with comments about this?
Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best regards
Dominik Schulz
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