On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 12:51:50PM -0700, Seth R Arnold wrote: > > > >So perhaps we should mandate that all mail programs should be capable > > > >of using Maildir format, which is NFS safe without needing locks, and > > > >adopt that as our default. > > > I would support a policy amendment to move debian to ~/Maildir/. > > > > As would I. > > Please forgive someone new to debian -- the benefits of moving to Maildir > format for NFS-based systems seems obvious, if it removes lock-contention > problems. However, wouldn't that mean mutt would be the only mailreader > supplied with Debian? This would be fine with me, since I rather enjoy mutt, > but some other people might not see it the same way. > > (And how would procmail handle? Do exim, qmail, sendmail all support Maildir > format?) procmail has supported maildir since hamm. exim supports maildir since at least slink, possibly before. sendmail does not support maildir, but it probably could if someone wrote the rule to do it, or it's possible that a code patch could be (or has been) written. qmail created maildir. The issue is that maildir will use one inode for each message. It's a terrible archival format and there's no real simple tool available today for archiving messages in a maildir (though one should not be hard to write..) > It seems that the hassle might not be worth it? In the default-static > thread, the argument was made "if you want your system to have those > redundancies, do it yourself" It seems the same argument would apply? > Please help me understand this.. > > (please note, this is *not* an official dissention or anything.. just my > curiosity of how Maildir format would work.. :) The only console MUA I know of which may not support maildir is elm-me+ and even it might. Still, I believe it should be done by the individual sysadmin---even though I have done it myself. The admin is the best person to decide if the changes made by switching to maildir are workable or not. -- Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux developer GnuPG: 2048g/3F9C2A43 - 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC 44F9 8FF7 D7A3 DCF9 DAB3 PGP 2.6: 2048R/50BDA0ED - E8 D6 84 81 E3 A8 BB 77 8E E2 29 96 C9 44 5F BE -------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Knghtbrd unleashes a pair of double barreled snurf guns and covers jesus with snurf darts <jesus> meany :P
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