Re: Mailbox Formates (was: Expiring mail)
On Aug 13 2000, Nate Duehr wrote: Just out of curiosity, anyone ever seen any good documentation on the advantages/disadvantages (even if it's biased, since we're *ALL* biased...) of the different mailbox formats? You can see something in this direction in the following homepage: http://cr.yp.to/maildir.html The closest to a comparison that I have seen are the man pages provided with qmail, maildir(5) and mbox(5). In essence: Maildir is, with a very small cost of performance (depending on your setup), the safest choice, with the added bonus of being extremely flexible (since all the messages are stored in individual files), so that messages can be manipulated by scripts (and, thus, do the expiring that the original poster wanted). As far as I know, Maildir was invented by Dan J. Bernstein, http://cr.yp.to/djb.html. []s, Roger... -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Rogerio Brito - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/ Nectar homepage: http://www.linux.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/nectar/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: Mailbox Formates (was: Expiring mail)
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 07:02:52PM -0300, Rogerio Brito wrote: On Aug 13 2000, Nate Duehr wrote: Just out of curiosity, anyone ever seen any good documentation on the advantages/disadvantages (even if it's biased, since we're *ALL* biased...) of the different mailbox formats? You can see something in this direction in the following homepage: http://cr.yp.to/maildir.html The closest to a comparison that I have seen are the man pages provided with qmail, maildir(5) and mbox(5). In essence: Maildir is, with a very small cost of performance (depending on your setup), the safest choice, with the added bonus of being extremely flexible (since all the messages are stored in individual files), so that messages can be manipulated by scripts (and, thus, do the expiring that the original poster wanted). As far as I know, Maildir was invented by Dan J. Bernstein, http://cr.yp.to/djb.html. Thanks, I'll take a look. -- Nate Duehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key fingerprint = DCAF 2B9D CC9B 96FA 7A6D AAF4 2D61 77C5 7ECE C1D2 Public Key available upon request, or at wwwkeys.pgp.net and others. pgpKymhNX8cLn.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: Mailbox Formates (was: Expiring mail)
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 12:43:26PM -0400, Christopher Mosley wrote: This would be quite easy if your mail is in Maildir format. Since you say mailbox I assume this is not the case. Qmail used to create mbox by default with the option to compile with Maildir. I imagine most mail user agents can be compiled or configured to use Maildir. Since Maildir uses a separate file for each post, you can see how easily this could accomplished independent of the capabilities of mail user agent. Info on Maildir format might be found at qmail but I really don't know. Perhaps there is info there on how to do this, it seems to be something people would be in need of - I mean - something for which there is a need. Why on earth shouldn't a sentence end with a preposition? cmos Just out of curiosity, anyone ever seen any good documentation on the advantages/disadvantages (even if it's biased, since we're *ALL* biased...) of the different mailbox formats? -- Nate Duehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key fingerprint = DCAF 2B9D CC9B 96FA 7A6D AAF4 2D61 77C5 7ECE C1D2 Public Key available upon request, or at wwwkeys.pgp.net and others. pgp0ESUT5rffu.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Mailbox Formates (was: Expiring mail)
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 01:26:49PM -0600, Nate Duehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just out of curiosity, anyone ever seen any good documentation on the advantages/disadvantages (even if it's biased, since we're *ALL* biased...) of the different mailbox formats? In my experience, Maildir is best for spooling new messages and mbox is best for large message archives. 1000 messages in a Maildir isn't pretty :) Maildir is great for spooling because no locking is necessary, making it perfect for NFS. It's slower (on very large mailboxes only) because MUAs must stat every single file in the directory, which is quite slow. I use Postfix as MTA which hands messages off to maildrop, which drops messages into various Maildirs in ~/Maildir. I read these over IMAP with courier-imap. When a mailbox gets to be about 200 messages, i convert it to an mbox in my archive directory. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. * [EMAIL PROTECTED] When I give food to the poor I am called a saint, when I ask why they go hungry I am called a communist --Bishop Helder Camara pgpQFaQK7Iqki.pgp Description: PGP signature
