Re: [Nolug] Community project: Mail/web server for Mischa DAY THREE

From: Mark A. Hershberger <mah_at_everybody.org>
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 20:08:34 -0500
Message-ID: <418EC712.6000006@everybody.org>

Jonathan Schwehm wrote:

> I think when using courier imap, your mail stores will be a single
> (possibly large) file. So keep this in mind when you select your
> filesystem. I could be wrong, but that's what I remember.

Courier uses the maildir format -- each message is kept as a seperate
file. This is different than the mbox format (which you seem to be
talking about) where a mailbox is one large file containing all the
messages. Last I checked, UW IMAP used that format.

Mark.
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