that's not the reason i was expecting -- my naïve guess was 1 lockfile is better than n.
i didn't mean The Maildir Format™®©. especially not the version courier uses with the utf-7 foldername encoding and the hamster droppings at the end of the filename to indicate status. i ment a directory with 1 email per file. Russ Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes | | > btw, why does upas use the mbox format rather than a directory? | > just wondering. | | upas predates mail directories by quite a long time.