Nota: El formato mbx es usado por PINE y por IMAP. Es mucho m�s rapido y permite sesiones simult�neas de lectura y escritura.
------------------------- 11.2 What are the advantages of the various mailbox formats Pine supports? (formerly "What is a Tenex mailbox and why should I use it?") Pine, being based on the c-client library for messaging applications, supports several formats for mailboxes. For a comparative table and details on how to select the format Pine will use, and on mailbox name conventions, see, respectively, the files docs/drivers.txt and docs/naming.txt that are included in the UW IMAP server source distribution, which is available from: ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/imap/imap.tar.Z Basically, mbx is the recommended (and default) format for PC-Pine. (PC Pine 4.x supports mbx, mtx, tenex, and unix formats, all read-write. PC Pine 3.x supported mtx and tenex read-write and unix read-only.) For UNIX Pine, the mbx format, because it allows multi-session access, is recommended over the unix format if (and only if) NFS is not involved. Using the mbx format allows multiple sessions (or multiple users, subject to the usual access controls) to have full Read-Write (RW) access to the INBOX. Message state changes (e.g. marking a message as deleted) and expunges can be done, and all such actions are automatically communicated to other sessions which have the mailbox open. In contrast: the normal Berkeley style folders can have only one RW client at a time, so given the current software the latest session steals the RW lock away from any previous session, with the earlier session becoming Read-Only. mbx format is also considerably faster and uses memory much more efficiently than the normal Berkeley style folder format. An mbx format mailbox can be created by prefixing the desired name with "#driver.mbx/". For example, if you want an mbx format mailbox called "test", create "#driver.mbx/test". The "#driver.mbx/" prefix is used only when creating the mailbox; to open it, just use "test". A user can have their INBOX in mbx format as well, by creating "#driver.mbx/INBOX". Mail will be automatically moved from the mail spool to the mbx format INBOX whenever Pine or an IMAP/POP server is run. CAUTION: mbx format uses read/write open modes and file locking, and depends upon local disk file semantics which are not present on NFS. Although mbx format will "work" via NFS, there are likely to be problems; consequently we do NOT advise using mbx format over NFS. CAUTION: mbx format is supported only on software based upon the UW c-client library, such as Pine, imapd, and ipop3d. If you use other software, e.g. elm, mm, etc., you should not use mbx format. -- -------------------------------------------------- Mario A. Guerra - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnolog�a - Tel. 290-1790 -- �Desea desuscribirse? Escriba a [EMAIL PROTECTED] con el tema "unsubscribe".
