Vincent Danen wrote:
quite agree. and i would add easier quota support too. I would add way better performance[1] for large mail boxes. I would add... ok i stop here, i switched to maildir a while back, and i will never commeback to mbox or gnus/nnml (sort of Maildir, but "proprietary") format.I don't think it's unrealistic to add. If nothing else, it's extremely simple for a user to remove if they don't want it (rm -rf ~/Maildir).Alternatively, we could configure postfix out of the box to use Maildirs instead of mboxes... Maildirs are far more reliable than traditional mboxes anyways. People use journalling filesystems now to prevent fs corruption, but what happens with mail corruption? If /var/spool/mail/username is corrupt, all the mail in it is useless. At least with Maildir, each message is it's own file; one corrupt file doesn't corrupt the entire folder.
but before doing this sort of thing, we must check and configure *ALL* our included MUA to use Maildir.
Maildir r0x :)Don't dismiss this out of hand just because djb invented it... =) The only MTA I know of that doesn't support Maildir is sendmail, and I could be wrong. postfix, qmail, exim... they all can use Maildirs.
And if you use procmail to deliver mail with sendmail (as most of people are doing) you will receive them in your Maildir
[1] http://www.courier-mta.org/mbox-vs-maildir/
