Why Maildir? (was Re: mailboxes lists)

2000-05-06 Thread Bennett Todd
2000-05-06-07:48:49 Roberto Suarez Soto: > Anyway, and though I know this is one of the recursive questions > of the list, what are the advantages that you find in maildir over > mailbox? It's a recurring question, no doubt, but revisiting it periodically is healthy. Here's what comes to my mind

Re: Why Maildir? (was Re: mailboxes lists)

2000-05-07 Thread Ookhoi
> > Anyway, and though I know this is one of the recursive questions > > of the list, what are the advantages that you find in maildir over > > mailbox? > > It's a recurring question, no doubt, but revisiting it periodically > is healthy. Here's what comes to my mind at the moment. > > I've been

Re: Why Maildir? (was Re: mailboxes lists)

2000-05-07 Thread Mikko Hänninen
Ookhoi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Sun, 07 May 2000: > Aren't you running out of inodes, and wasting disk space with Maildir? I > receive about 1400 messages a day, and I think I would run out of > inodes, or at least waste a _lot_ of disk space. I get anything from 1500 to over 2000 emails week

Re: Why Maildir? (was Re: mailboxes lists)

2000-05-07 Thread Bennett Todd
2000-05-07-05:28:39 Ookhoi: > > I've been using Maildir for a couple of years now, started when > > I tried out qmail several years back, when I switched to Postfix > > I used procmail with maildir patches to stick with the Maildir > > format. I subscribe to dozens of lists, with varying amounts

Re: Why Maildir? (was Re: mailboxes lists)

2000-05-08 Thread Pete Toscano
basically, i use maildir because my mail store is nfs mounted and i receive mail from a few different machines, all processed through procmail with maildir patch. this was growing hair with my previous mh format directories. pete On Sat, 06 May 2000, Bennett Todd wrote: > 2000-05-06-07:48:49 R