le Thu, 23 Oct 2003 13:59:27 -0400, Aaron <aaron@core-dev.com> s'exprima en ces termes: > No relation to the P.O. box chain :p > > I wonder what most people use to organize their local mail these days? > I don't run a full-on MTA, I rely on fetchmail and procmail for the > delivery of my messages, and they are stored (by default) in mbox > format. > > Are there any comparative guides out there? What are the benefits of > procmail/postfix/qmail/sendmail/fetchmail/etc.? Wait, procmail/postfix/qmail/sendmail/fetchmail can't be compared: - fetchmail gets mails from POP/IMAP servers, delivering it to your (local) MTA - postfix/qmail/sendmail are MTA: they dispatch mails to local users, or on Internet. - procmail sorts incoming mail for a local user to put it where the user wants. > The issue of mail in Linux is very complicated. What is the most > efficient format for storing local mail? mbox, Maildir, postfix+mySQL, > printed in hex to a lineprinter, read by Festival into an auto-loading > cassette deck? >From my point of view, MH if far more efficient: you can add indexes to your MHs to speed up searches, purge MHs from olders mails, ... without using a MUA. Mbox is useful to take mails from a machine to another, and, well, festival is very useful if you are blinded ;) > I'm finding mbox to be very SLOW with many messages (understandably), > but the process of switching to Maildir is complex enough that I want > to be sure I'm making the right choice. You can find a tool here: http://www.gerg.ca/hacks/mb2md for mbox->maildir, and at Sylpheed's homepage: http://sylpheed-claws.sourceforge.net/tools/sylpheed-convert_mbox.tar.gz for mbox->MH and http://sylpheed-claws.sourceforge.net/tools/sylpheed-maildir2sylpheed.tar.gz for maildir->MH. I heard KMail provided also a scipt to convert from maild to mbox. As you can see, that's easy. Want I went from Evolution to Sylpheed, I used some of this scripts over 10000+ messages without losing one ! /N ______________________________________________________________________ Nicolas Rueff <n.rueff@tuxfamily.org> http://rueff.tuxfamily.org +33 6 77 64 44 80 -- Unix soit qui mal y pense [Unix to him who evil thinks?] ______________________________________________________________________
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