Michael A. Peters wrote:
Ned Slider wrote:
Ah, yes indeed. Thanks for the clarification - that completely passed
me over when I set up my system.
Any thoughts on mbox vs maildir and pop vs imap. Is there accepted
best practice or is this something best left to the individual users
discretion after reading up for themselves on the individual merits
of each?
I personally use maildir / imap. I don't know if this would happen
with mbox as well, but one of the downsides to maildir is that you end
up with a ton of tiny files making tar performance dismal if you
decide to make a tar archive.
I don't remember why I chose maildir when I did, that was eons ago.
But I do remember I had a reason. The default was mbox and I changed
it. It may have been performance related, but I don't remember.
As far as why I use imap to access my mail - that's a no brainer, it
lets me easily access it from almost any machine running almost any
client.
I had AWFUL performance with mbox on a RH 7.2/uw-imap when the
number of mails (left in the mailbox) increased substantially (I am
talking about thousands of them). Switching to dovecot/imap solved that.
The box is still alive and kicking
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