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Re: mbox vs. maildir



"Chris Hilts" <chilts@birdbrained.org> writes:

> Are there any opinions on mbox vs. maildir?  I'm told by several friends 
> that maildir is probably the more efficient way to go, but my Debian system 
> came with mbox by default, and I'm not sure how easy/wise it would be to 
> change.

A thorough comparison, wrt IMAP can be found here:

http://www.courier-mta.org/mbox-vs-maildir/

maildir is generally better/safer/less braindead, though it gobbles up
inodes.

-- 
Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>
BigNachos@jabber.org
http://bignachos.com



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