A friend of mine at work made a great suggestion to me, and I think I am
finding it actually a good idea. Along his lines of thinking, I am using
Qmail. I really enjoy it, and find it not hard to install after the
first couple of installs. I have it working lovley in cooperation with
Fetchmail and Procmail. He suggested not to have each directory in
MAILDIR format, because it just makes the directory structure for your
mailboxes the pits. And it's not really important mail that is coming in
to those boxes, just mailing lists for kernel, or bugs, or say mutt. And
those are available online any way for the most part. I tend to agree
with that philosophy.
So those mails are coming in via mbox, and anything that passes through
all the filters, comes to the last filter and gets passed to a default
of MAILDIR format. My spool.
My question is this. First. What do you think of this reasoning? Second.
I am wondering if I could use Rolands patch for compression just on my
"backup-inbox" since that is in mbox format, or what I am thinking is,
convert that to the MAILDIR structure and just sending it to a cronjob
to gzip it up. I don't know if Roland's patch supports MAILDIR though?
On a side note, does anyone like the Little Big Brothers Database? What
do you like about it? What don't you like about it? Would you suggest
checking it out?
Thanks
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