Re: IMAP is teh r0x0rz! [was: Re: getting copies of own posted messages; was: Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.]
Nate Duehr wrote:
> We really gotta get you over to Maildir someday, Steve. ;-)
>
> Then you can back up mail directories with thinks like rdiff and not
> pull in the whole mbox file into the backup again. Just the new
> mail. (GRIN)
While I do think Maildir is a lot better than mbox, applications like
rsync, rdiff-backup, etc, copy only what's changed in files, so
rsync'ing a mbox is actually efficient.
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