With all the discussion of mail handling recently, it's perked my interest in trying
to revive the mail system on my test machine, which I've borked pretty royally. One
thing I've never had a good handle on is mbox vs maildir. I sort-of know the
differences between the two, but have no idea ab
Anthony Floyd wrote:
With all the discussion of mail handling recently, it's perked my
interest in trying to revive the mail system on my test machine,
which I've borked pretty royally. One thing I've never had a good
handle on is mbox vs maildir. I sort-of know the differences between
the two, b
while were talking about mail, whats a good lightweight setup? im looking
for a yahoo like web access mail program that can also do a pop3 or
similiar function. Is apache still the best webserver?
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Trying to extend the list... (i am not a guru)
On Friday 06 June 2003 01:14, Jonathan Nichols wrote:
> mbox = big fat flat file
> Pro:Can be easy to administer & move mailboxes if needed
> Con:Unfortunately easy to corrupt mail file
Con: possible problems with locking
Pro: easier to backup/copy
>
Jonathan Nichols <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I think that's a fairly rough list.. ;)
Yes, you missed the main problem that maildirs address: there are no
locking problems with maildir but possibly big ones with mbox.
Regards, Frank
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On 2003-06-06 03:55, Arnold Krille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For me maildir works better too. Except that I once needed to copy
> my maildir, but perhaps I should have it packed ;-)
cp -R
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Hey, thanks to everyone for their input on this, it was enlightening.
Cheers,
Anthony.
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From: Frank Tegtmeyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: mbox vs maildir
> I'd imagine that 100% of the people on this list interact with email,
> which is a much better ratio than those that use X, setup a bootsplash,
> or want sound to work. I quitely delete those threads as being of no
> interest to me, but interesting and on topic for others on the list. I
> expect
To me, if all we asked about on this list was purely gentoo related this
would be a dead list as X, bootsplash, sound, network, editors, terminal emulators, etc.
all have nothing to do with gentoo per se so we'd all be elsewhere. If
you look at it that way there isn't much left to discuss expec
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 22:17:37 -0500 (EST), Brett I. Holcomb
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> To me, if all we asked about on this list was purely gentoo related this
> would be a dead list as X, bootsplash, sound, network, editors, terminal
> emulators, etc.
> all have nothing to do with gen
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 20:46 -0700, Collins Richey wrote:
> I agree 100%, Brett, but we are in the minority.
Look it was me who raised the OT-ness of this thread and if you read
back I kind of withdrew my complaint and apologised. There is a line
somewhere, and the related problem in this case is h
On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 17:49:23 +1300, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Look it was me who raised the OT-ness of this thread and if you read
> back I kind of withdrew my complaint and apologised. There is a line
> somewhere, and the related problem in this case is how easy it is to get
> info o
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 22:58 -0700, Collins Richey wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 17:49:23 +1300, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Look it was me who raised the OT-ness of this thread and if you read
> > back I kind of withdrew my complaint and apologised. There is a line
> > somewhere, and
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