On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 12:51:05PM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> >(it usually is not, and it definitely is not for
> >tipical POP servers).
> Still, deleting messages from a mbox-style mailbox means copying
> the entire mailbox usually at least twice.
Copying it once and renaming it, surely?
Maildir is also a good way to go if you want to have mail shared across
two machines that aren't always connected. (Using unison.deb or similar,
eg)
> >Debian should make sensible decisions about use of available technology.
> >The reality is that maildir is only useful on some setups with remote
> >mounted mailboxes and broken NFS locking.
> There certainly are mailbox formats that are better than maildir,
> but IMHO unix-style mbox files isn't one of them.
There are? Any pointers?
Cheers,
aj, who doesn't really think there's much value in changing the default
mailbox format for Debian
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