Jason Helfman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Are there any other advantages with this setup?
You mean, besides not silently corrupting your stored and incoming mail, and
being higher-performance, working over NFS properly, and generally behaving
properly? No, no advantages at all.
Yes, this is sarcasm.
Charles
> | Jason Helfman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> | > don't you find the file structure of this just horrid though?
> | >
> | > To have new/ tmp/ cur/ for every mailing list? I would like to and would
> | > perfer to use maildir for the mailing lists, I don't know why...
> | >
> | > What are the advantages to this...
> |
> | Maildirs are safe for multiple concurrent writers and readers simultaneously,
> | with no file locking, even over NFS -- so you can't corrupt a Maildir by
> | having it open for writing by your MUA and the MDA which tries to stick a
> | new message in it, etc. Not needing file locks is also good for
> | performance on busy maildirs.
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Charles Cazabon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
QCC Communications Corporation Saskatoon, SK
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