Re: [Nolug] Re: Maildir format

Mark A. Hershberger wrote:

>Craig Jackson <craig.jackson@wild.net> writes:
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>>What mta do you like?
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>For delivering to maildir format, I use both exim and qmail (at
>different places).
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>>I used qmail for a year. It worked great until I setup smtps and
>>pop3s. I set them up successfully and then believe it or not all by
>>themselves, they stopped working.
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>I've seen strange things with qmail, so I would believe it. I
>avoided the pop daemons that most people use with qmail.
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>I have been using qmail with TLS support for quite some time with no
>breakage, though.
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>>I'm willing to give postfix and courier/vpopmail a try with
>>maildirs, though I would prefer to stay with mbx.
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>I can't seem to find a good description of the mbx format. Got one?
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>>Though I appreciate the efficiency advantages of Maildir over mbox
>>(I don't think there's a speed advantage over mbx), with small
>>mailboxes, such efficiencies aren't available with very large
>>mailboxes as you run into inode and file I/O issues.
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>These are filesystem issues, not maildir format issues. Both
>ReiserFS and XFS (which I use) are much better at handling
>directories with a large number of files than UFS or ext2fs.
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>Mark.
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Here's a decent reference to various formats, though short:
http://www.python.org/doc/2.3b2/lib/module-mailbox.html

This is more relevant to the discussion:
http://techdir.rutgers.edu/imap.html
mbx, I think, is the way to go.

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Craig Jackson
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