Re: maildir vs mailspool

[Felix Natter <f.natter@ndh.net>]

Marcelo Chiapparini <chiappa@centroin.com.br> writes:

> Hi!
> what is the difference between a local mailspool and a local maildir? 

Maildir is a different format for the storage of incoming mails (the
"spool") that the mail-server qmail (www.qmail.org) uses.
if your maildir is in ~/Maildir, then new mails will arive one per file
in ~/Maildir/new.
What is normally used is called mbox-format. In this format, incoming
mail is stored in one file called /var/spool/mail/<username>.

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Felix Natter