With all the discussion of mail handling recently, it's perked my interest in trying to revive the mail system on my test machine, which I've borked pretty royally. One thing I've never had a good handle on is mbox vs maildir. I sort-of know the differences between the two, but have no idea about the advantages/disadvantages of either of them.
mbox = big fat flat file Pro:Can be easy to administer & move mailboxes if needed Con:Unfortunately easy to corrupt mail file
maildir = each message is an individual file Pro:More efficient & less likely to hose big mail file Con:Lots of files
I think that's a fairly rough list.. ;) We use Postfix/Courier-Imap here with maildir. It's been working a LOT better than the old Postfix/UW-Imap setup, that's for sure.
-Jonathan
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