Re: mutt weirdness: >> "Move read messages to /home/astartoth/Mail/~/Maildir? ([n]/y):"
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 03:16:39PM -0500, dman wrote:
>
> BTW, What's with this ~/Maildir thing I keep seeing mentioned? Where
> did that come from?
Maildir is an alternative method of storing mail invented by djb and
first supportd by qmail; procmail, maildrop, exim, postfix and several
other packages know about it. Mutt supports it well; pine supports it
with a patch; several emacs-based mailers know it. Lots of mail-related
software can use it.
Maildir stores each message in exactly one file; it guarantees not to
lose mail, and does not require locking, even over NFS-mounted directories.
It is fast for mail delivery and deletion; grep works for searches because
each file is a separate message. It can be slower to load an entire folder
than mbox because it needs to grab many files instead of just one big file.
-dsr-
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