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.

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