Gopi Sundaram writes:
> http://www.imap.org/papers/imap.vs.pop.brief.html
You use POP3 when you want to get the email the hell off your
servers. You use IMAP when you want to have a mail expiration policy,
when you want to backup your users email, when your users read their
email sometimes with their desktop and sometimes with their laptop.
> I'm reluctant to move to Maildir until we can get more MUAs to support
> them (specifically Pine and Netscape).
Wrong idea. Never expose your mailboxes to your users. Always use a
virtual mailbox system -- either pop3 or imap.
> I've heard that the maildir format may have scalability issues because
> of the number of files that it deals with (bunches of open(), read()
> and stat() calls). Is there any truth to this?
Why would you ever have that much email in your incoming mailbox? Why
are you leaving it there?
--
-russ nelson will be speaking at http://www.osdn.com/conferences/brie/
Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | Watch out! He's got an
521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | opinion, and he's not
Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | afraid to share it!
